Hemodialysis Adequacy and Its Impact on Long-Term Patient Survival in Demographically, Socially, and Culturally Homogeneous Patients

Table 1

Some basic demographic and social and economic characteristics of two groups that were matched from the beginning of the study.

Group	Group A	Group B	value
Number of patients	40	40	=1
Age (years)	37.87 ± 9.98	41, 5 ± 10.80	=0.10
Weight (kilograms)	44.50	50.40	=0.79
Male gender (percent)	22/(55%)	22/(55%)	=1
Number of patients with less than 58$ monthly income (percent)	40 (100%)	40 (%100)	=1
Number of illiterate patients	34 (85%)	36 (90%)	=0.50
Current marital status (married/unmarried)	32/8	30/10	=0.8
Time duration from the beginning of hemodialysis (months)	44.05 ± 5.80	50.80 ± 4.80	=0.70
Number of uninsured patients	40	0	<0.01
Diabetes mellitus as the cause of end stage renal disease	4 (10%)	5 (12.5%)	=0.28