Clinical Study
Independent Value of Cardiac Troponin T and Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain in Predicting All-Cause Mortality among Stable Hemodialysis Patients with Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
Table 1
Baseline clinical characteristics of stable hemodialysis patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction.
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Continuous data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation or the median (25th and 75th percentiles); categorical data are expressed as the number (percentage). A nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test was used for nonnormally distributed data. ; #LV hypertrophy was diagnosed by echocardiography. Abbreviations: ACEI: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor; ARB: angiotensin II-receptor blocker; BMI: body mass index; CAD: coronary artery disease; CCB: calcium channel blocker; cTnT: cardiac troponin T; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; hsCRP: high-sensitivity C-reactive protein; IDWG: interdialytic weight gain; IL: interleukin; Kt/V: an indicator of dialysis adequacy (: urea clearance; : dialysis time; : urea distribution volume); LV: left ventricle; PICP: procollagen type I C-terminal peptide; SBP: systolic blood pressure. |