Effect of a Supervised Peridialytic Exercise Program on Serum Asymmetric Dimethylarginine in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients

Table 3

Statistical correlations of serum ADMA (before and after exercise) and serum ADMA change.

	S. ADMA before exercise		S. ADMA change		S. ADMA after exercise
	r		r		r
Age	0.051	0.741	−0.010	0.946	0.06	0.698
Duration of dialysis	0.207	0.177	−0.137	0.374	0.041	0.790
Basal METs. minutes/week (without intradialytic exercise)	0.006	0.967	−0.009	0.954	−0.057	0.711
Intradialytic hypotensive episodes	−0.234	0.127	0.401	0.007	0.305	0.044
Bacterial infections	0.278	0.068	−0.172	0.266	−0.069	0.654
Haemoglobin	−0.093	0.547	0.032	0.839
S. urea	−0.172	0.265	0.047	0.763
Kt/V	0.249	0.103	−0.261	0.087
S. creatinine	−0.212	0.166	0.120	0.437
S. calcium	−0.142	0.357	0.091	0.556
S. phosphorus	0.372	0.013	−0.081	0.601
Ca × Ph product	0.330	0.029	−0.024	0.877
S. CRP	−0.185	0.240	0.149	0.348

Laboratory parameters studied for correlations are those recorded at the start of the study. S: serum, Ca: calcium, Ph: phosphorus, CRP: C-reactive protein, ADMA: asymmetric dimethylarginine, METs: metabolic equivalents. r: Spearman correlation coefficient, significant (); highly significant ().