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

Table 3

Distribution of specific cardiovascular disease risk factors among haemodialysed patients by age.

Variables	20–49		50		Total		p value
	N	%	N	%	N	%
(1) Anaemia
No	2	11.2	—	—	2	5.8	0.220
Yes	16	88.8	17	100	33	94.2
(2) CRP
Positive	13	72.2	14	82.3	27	77.1	0.202
Negative	5	27.7	3	17.6	8	23.3
(3) Mean values (Mean SD)
Haemoglobin (g/dL)	9.3 ± 1.55		8.64 ± 1.18		8.98 ± 1.40		0.054
Phosphate (mg/L)	69.39 ± 26.40		69.71 ± 26.13		69.54 ± 25.88		0.894
Calcium (mg/L)	74.67 ± 15.06		67.06 ± 20.05		70.97 ± 17.82		0.065