Table 2.

Correlations of arterial AcAc, β-HB, and AcAc/β-HB ratio in non-DM and T2DM HD patients

	All HD patients (n = 49)			Non-DM group (n = 24)			T2DM group (n = 25)
	AcAc	β-HB	AcAc/β-HB	AcAc	β-HB	AcAc/β-HB	AcAc	β-HB	AcAc/β-HB
Age	0.092	0.035	−0.039	0.016	−0.118	0.063	0.219	0.358	−0.317
BMI	−0.023	− 0.068	0.160	− 0.024	− 0.214	0.268	− 0.014	− 0.180	0.327
HD duration	0.043	−0.162	0.190	−0.043	− 0.099	0.096	0.228	0.020	0.000
Interdialytic BW gain	−0.243	−0.472	0.360*	−0.228	− 0.453*	0.302	− 0.218	−0.420*	0.357
Serum urea nitrogen	−0.095	−0.350	0.434*	−0.020	− 0.414*	0.458*	− 0.130	−0.282	0.467*
Cre	−0.031	−0.267	0.343*	−0.078	− 0.373	0.425*	0.073	−0.108	0.254
Alb	0.140	0.021	0.112	−0.052	−0.352	0.442*	0.308	0.235	−0.030
Fasting plasma glucose	0.196	−0.013	0.207	0.143	−0.408*	0.592*	0.165	0.013	0.177
Glycoalbumin	0.088	0.166	−0.163	−0.038	− 0.338	0.342	− 0.002	0.230	− 0.318
LDL-C	0.054	0.193	−0.231	0.302	0.477*	−0.467*	−0.210	− 0.005	−0.137
Uric acid	0.057	−0.296	0.474*	0.083	−0.477*	0.664*	0.111	0.036	0.139
Pi	−0.338*	−0.242	0.204	−0.535*	− 0.109	−0.009	− 0.137	−0.304	0.445*

Correlation (r) was examined using Spearman’s Rank Correlation test

*Statistically significant difference (p < 0.05)