Oral Tori in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients

Table 3

Dialysis-related data of hemodialysis patients with or without torus formation (n = 119).

Variable	All patients (n = 119)	Patients with oral tori (n = 40)	Patients without oral tori (n = 79)	value
Residual glomerular filtration rate, mL/min	2.8 ± 3.25	3.1 ± 3.5	2.7 ± 3.2	0.569
Urea reduction ratio	0.8 ± 0.1	0.8 ± 0.1	0.8 ± 0.1	1.000
Kt/V (Daugirdas [29])	1.7 ± 0.3	1.7 ± 0.4	1.7 ± 0.3	0.577
Normalized protein catabolic rate, g/kg/day	1.4 ± 0.6	1.4 ± 0.7	1.3 ± 0.5	0.460
Time-averaged concentration of urea, mg/dL	45.2 ± 13.9	44.6 ± 9.7	45.5 ± 15.6	0.742