Use of Procalcitonin in Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis: Procalcitonin Is Not Related with Increased Serum Calcitonin

Figure 1

Comparison of box plots of clinical parameters before hemodialysis between the infection and noninfection groups. (1) PCT levels (*𝑃<0.01), (2) CRP levels (*𝑃<0.01), (3) IL-6 (*𝑃<0.01) levels, (4) WBC count (*𝑃<0.01), (5) I/T ratio (**𝑃=0.05), and (6) CT levels (*𝑃<0.01) were significantly higher in the Infection group than those in the Noninfection group. PCT: procalcitonin; CT: calcitonin; CRP: C-reactive protein; IL-6: interleukin-6; WBC: white blood cells; I/T ratio: immature and total neutrophil ratio; I: infection; NI: noninfection.

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