Association of Serum Uric Acid Concentration and Its Change with Cardiovascular Death and All-Cause Mortality

Table 2

Characteristics of alive and dead patients.

Status	Alive	Dead	value
Number of patients
Range of uric acid variability values (%)			0.193
Age (year)			<0.001
Male	124 (59.3%)	71 (61.2%)	0.741
Female	85 (40.7%)	45 (38.8%)
Tunneled cuffed catheter (%)	50 (23.9%)	39 (33.6%)	0.06
AvF (%)	159 (76.1%)	77 (66.4%)
Hypertension (%)	207 (99.0%)	115 (99.1%)	0.932
Hemoglobin (g/L)			0.132
Phosphorus (mmol/L)			<0.001
Calcium (mmol/L)			0.904
PTH (μg/L)			<0.001
Albumin (g/L)			<0.001
Uric acid (μmol/L)			<0.001
Primary renal disease ()			0.003
Hypertensive kidney lesion	16 (7.7%)	10 (8.6%)
ANCA	1 (0.5%)	2 (1.7%)
Diabetes	79 (37.8%)	68 (58.6%)
Glomerulonephritis	90 (43.1%)	27 (23.3%)
Drug-induced kidney damage	3 (1.4%)	0 (0.0%)
Polycystic kidney	7 (3.3%)	4 (3.4%)
Renal allograft dysfunction	6 (2.9%)	0 (0.0%)
Lupus nephritis	2 (1.0%)	0 (0.0%)
Obstructive nephropathy	5 (2.4%)	5 (4.3%)

AvF = arteriovenous fistula; PTH = parathyroid hormone;  = number; ANCA = antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies.