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

Table 4

Distribution of specific cardiovascular disease risk factors among study participants by duration of dialysis.

Variables	Duration of dialysis
	<1 year		1–5 years		5–10 years		p value
	N	%	N	%	N	%
(1) Anaemia
No	2	5.7	—	—	—	—	0.131
Yes	10	30.3	18	54.5	5	15.2
(2) CRP
Positive	9	33.3	13	48.1	5	18.5	0.415
Negative	3	37.5	5	31.3	—	—
(3) Mean values (Mean SD)
Haemoglobin (g/dL)	8.36 ± 1.57		9.32 ± 1.29		9.24 ± 1.05		0.173
Phosphate (mg/L)	71.67 ± 24.8		71.89 ± 29.67		56.00 ± 12.00		0.210
Calcium (mg/L)	70.33 ± 16.00		67.83 ± 19.81		83.80 ± 8.67		0.463