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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chemosphere. 2020 Apr 17;254:126809. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126809

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of participants in the study

Variables Participant without CKD (n=268) Participant with CKD (n=193) p-Valuea
Age (years) 97.7±5.0 98.2±5.3 0.24
Male, n (%) 67 (25.0) 28 (14.5) <0.01
BMI (kg/m2) 19.47±3.81 18.78±2.73 0.02
Education, n (%)
Less than primary school 234 (87.3) 170 (88.1)
 Primary school 20 (7.5) 16 (8.3) 0.69
More than primary school 14 (5.2) 7 (3.6)
Smoking status, n (%)
 Current smoker 36 (13.4) 38 (19.7)
 Former smoker 30 (11.2) 23 (11.9) 0.17
 Never smoker 202 (75.4) 132 (68.4)
Drinking status, n (%)
 Current drinker 42 (15.7) 27 (14.0)
 Former drinker 23 (8.6) 18 (9.3) 0.86
 Never drinker 203 (75.7) 148 (76.7)
Hypertension, n (%) 154 (57.5) 110 (57.0) 0.92
Hyperlipidemia, n (%) 46 (17.2) 23 (11.9) 0.12
Diabetes, n (%) 31 (11.6) 23 (11.9) 0.91
Physical activity, n (%) 183 (68.3) 123 (63.7) 0.31
Selenium (μg/L) 108.76 (81.50–143.98) 120.51 (84.98–166.97) 0.02
Manganese (μg/L) 31.55 (15.99–65.78) 26.64 (11.82–59.97) 0.08
Iron (μg/L) 4512.00 (2429.65–8330.82) 2880.52 (1587.20–6155.30) <0.001
Zinc(μg/L) 2294.24 (1161.15–3590.73) 1882.42 (969.96–2726.60) 0.01

Note: Normally distributed variables were presented as mean ± SD. Categorical variables were presented as numbers (percentage). Skewed distributed variables were presented as median (P25, P75).

a

p-Values were derived from Student’s t-tests or Mann-Whitney U tests for continuous variables according to the data distributions, chi-square test for the category variables.