Table 1.

Epidemiological findings of study population and evaluation of the homogeneity of the study groups.

	CKD Patients	Healthy Subjects	p (ANOVA Test)
N	21	10
Gender (male/female)	13/8	6/4	ns
Age (years)	68.7 ± 10.0 a	67.1 ± 4.6 a	ns
Height (m)	1.64 ± 0.10 a	1.67 ± 0.1 a	ns
Weight (kg)	73.6 ± 12.9 a	73.9 ± 5.5 a	ns
BMI (kg/m2)	27.3 ± 4.8 a	26.7 ± 3.0 a	ns

^a Data expressed as mean ± standard deviation; Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CKD, Chronic kidney disease; ns, not significant.