The Association of Long-Functioning Hemodialysis Vascular Access with Prevalence of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Table 1
Characteristics of study patients with or without functioning vascular access (VA).
Patent VA ()
No patent VA ()
Statistical significance
Demographic and anthropometric data
Age (years)
49 (46–52)
50 (48–52)
0.58
Gender (M/F)
42/25
56/39
0.88
BMI (kg/m2)
27.2 (26.0–28.4)
26.7 (25.6–27.7)
0.51
BSA (m2)
1.93 (1.88–1.99)
1.88 (1.84–1.93)
0.15
Past medical history
Duration of pretransplant dialysis therapy (years)
2.2 (1.9–2.8)
2.5 (2.1–2.9)
0.54
Time after transplantation (years)
8.0 (7.6–8.5)
8.7 (8.3–9.1)
0.08
Duration of hypertension therapy (years)
15.9 (14.3–17.5)
17.3 (15.6–18.9)
0.56
Hypertension (n (%))
55 (82.9)
83 (87.4)
0.35
Diabetes (n (%))
17 (25.4)
20 (21.1)
0.52
Symptomatic coronary artery disease (n (%))
12 (17.9)
16 (16.8)
0.97
MACE (n (%))
12 (17.9)
13 (13.7)
0.46
Active smokers (n (%))
12 (17.9)
20 (21.1)
0.62
Kidney graft function
eGFR-MDRD (mL/min/1.73 m2)
50.8 (46.0–55.6)
51.4 (47.0–55.8)
0.82
Results of echocardiography
ESD (mm)
30.2 (28.8–31.5)
29.3 (28.1–30.6)
0.35
EDD (mm)
50.6 (48.5–52.6)
48.5 (47.3–49.7)
0.008
IVS (mm)
12.5 (11.8–13.2)
11.9 (11.5–12.3)
0.09
PW (mm)
11.4 (11.0–11.8)
10.5 (10.1–12.8)
<0.001
LVM (g)
297 (269–324)
244 (228–260)
<0.001
RWT ≥ 0.42 (n (%))
43 (64.2)
60 (63.2)
0.97
LVM indexed for BSA (g/m2)
152 (139–165)
130 (121–138)
0.002
LVM indexed for height2.7 (g/m2.7)
69.6 (63.3–76.0)
59.3 (55.5–63.1)
0.003
Other measurements
IMT (mm)
0.67 (0.63–0.72)
0.69 (0.65–0.72)
0.53
PWV (m/s)
13.0 (11.8–14.1)
12.4 (11.2–13.5)
0.48
Data shown as means 95% CI or frequencies. BMI: body mass index, BSA: body surface area, MACE: major adverse cardiac events, eGFR-MDRD: estimated glomerular filtration rate based on Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study formula, ESD: left ventricular end-systolic diameter, EDD: left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, IVS: intraventricular septal thickness, PW: posterior wall thickness, LVM: left ventricular mass, RWT: relative wall thickness, IMT: intima-media thickness, and PWV: pulse wave velocity.
