Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of patients who started hemodialysis in 2013 to 2015 compared with 2017 to 2021

	2013–2015	2017–2021	P value
N	91	158
Age (yr), median (min-max)	71 (18–90)	70 (26–94)	0.390
Gender, n females (%)	31 (34.1)	64 (40.5)	0.314
CCI, median (min-max)	7 (2–15)	8 (2–18)	0.018
Diabetes, n (%)	32 (35.2)	73 (46.2)	0.089
Start in hospitalization, n (%)	79 (86.8)	116 (73.9)	0.017

CCI, Charlson comorbidity index; max, maximum; min, minimum.

Bold value indicates significant differences.