Change of Renal Parenchymal Width in Patients with Unilateral Ureteral Stent: A Bicenter Retrospective Study

Table 3

Analysis of continuous and categorical variables.

	% change of mean PW
Continuous variables	Spearman’s correlation coefficient
Age		0.336
Duration		<0.001
Categorical variables	mean ± SD
Sex		0.185
Male
Female
DM		0.401
No
Yes
HTN		0.694
No
Yes
History of pelvic surgery		0.657
No
Yes
History of pelvic RT		0.190
No
Yes
History of chemotherapy		<0.001
No
Yes
Laterality		0.304
Left
Right

Spearman’s rank correlation analysis; Mann–Whitney U test; PW = parenchymal width, eGFR = estimated glomerular filtration rate, SD = standard deviation, DM = diabetes mellitus, HTN = hypertension, RT = radiotherapy.