Cardiology Research and Practice

Clinical Study

Height Constitutes an Important Predictor of Mortality in End-Stage Renal Disease

Table 1

Demographic feature of participating patients.
Non-DM DM
Age (y/o) 5 9 ± 1 3 5 9 ± 1 2
Sex (M/F)41/1141/11
height (cm) 1 6 4 ± 9 1 6 3 ± 8
Weight (kg) 6 0 ± 1 0 6 0 ± 1 1
SBP (mmHg) 1 4 3 ± 1 9 1 4 6 ± 2 0
DBP (mmHg) 6 9 ± 1 3 6 7 ± 1 6
SBP2 (mmHg) 1 2 7 ± 1 6 1 2 9 ± 1 8
MBP (mmHg) 9 4 ± 1 2 9 4 ± 1 3
PR (bpm) 7 8 ± 1 8 7 9 ± 1 0
TC (mg/dl) 1 5 7 ± 4 2 1 5 8 ± 3 6
HDL-C (mg/dl) 4 0 ± 1 5 3 6 ± 1 1
TG (mg/dl) 1 1 5 ± 4 5 1 3 4 ± 5 2 ∗
Smoking (%)1925
AI 7 8 ± 2 1 7 9 ± 2 0
LVH (%)15 4 6 ∗
HD duration (yrs) 1 2 . 4 ± 1 . 0 9 . 6 ± 0 . 8 ∗
DM, HD, PR, TC, HDL-C, TG, AI, LVH, SBP, SBP2, DBP, and MBP depicted diabetes mellitus, hemodialysis, pulse rate, total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglyceride, augmentation index, left ventricular hypertrophy, systolic, central, diastolic and mean blood pressure, respectively. ∗ indicates significance between groups.