Frequency of Specific Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Cameroonian Patients on Dialysis: The Cases of Anaemia, Inflammation, Phosphate, and Calcium

Table 1

Comparison of specific cardiovascular disease risk factors between haemodialysed patients and healthy controls.

Variables	Patients		Control		p value
	N	%	N	%
(1) Anaemia
No	2	5.7	28	82.4	0.001
Yes	33	94.3	6	17.6
(2) CRP
Positive	27	77.1	5	14.3	0.001
Negative	8	22.9	30	85.7
(3) Mean values (Mean SD)
Haemoglobin (g/dL)	8.98 ± 1.40		13.93 ± 1.50		0.001
Phosphate (mg/L)	69.54 ± 25.88		37.63 ± 4.72		0.001
Calcium (mg/L)	70.97 ± 17.82		92.14 ± 6.42		0.001