Associations between Pulse Wave Velocity, Aortic Vascular Calcification, and Bone Mineral Density in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients and General Population

Table 1

The demographics and clinical characteristics of the patients studied.

		GPP	CHP	𝑃
Gender	M	36/60 (60%)	53/80 (66.2%)	0.481
	F	24/60 (40%)	27/80 (33.8%)
Age	(years)	57.5±10.9	59.3±11.8	0.358
Height	(cm)	165.7±9.9	162.3±8.9	0.035
Weight	(kg)	78.1±16.0	63.5±11.9	<0.0001
BMI	(kg/m^2)	27.8±4.4	23.4±3.6	<0.0001
HT	(y/no)	24/60 (40%)	37/80 (46.2%)	0.494
Diabetes	(y/no)	12/60 (20%)	16/80 (20%)	1.0
Smokers	(y/no)	18/60 (30%)	20/80 (25%)	0.546

GPP: general population patients; CHP: chronic hemodialysis patients;
HT: hypertension; M: male; F: female; BMI: body mass index; P: two-tailed probability P value; high statistical differences P  <  0.001 in bold, statistically significant values P  < 0.05 in underline, not significant 𝑃>  0.1 in italic.