Associations between Pulse Wave Velocity, Aortic Vascular Calcification, and Bone Mineral Density in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients and General Population

Table 3

Results of blood test levels from GPP and CHP.

	GPP	CHP	𝑃
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Urea (mmol/L)	6.6±2.1	20.9±5.5	0.0001
Creatinine (𝜇mol/L)	84.6±19.7	730.6±204.1	0.0001
Haemoglobin (g/L)	125.5±17.0	111.7±18.2	0.0001
Albumin (g/L)	43.5±4.9	38.4±4.9	0.0001
C-react. protein (mg/L)	7.4±5.7	9.4±2.6	0.0062
Calcium (mmol/L)	2.30±0.10	2.19±0.15	0.0001
Ioniz. Ca (mmol/L)	1.21±0.05	0.94±0.01	0.0001
Phosphate (mmol/L)	1.30±0.09	1.56±0.36	0.0001
Ca × P (mmol^2/L^2)	2.97±0.24	3.46±0.83	0.0001
ALP (U/L)	123.7±42.1	163.7±152.7	0.0506
PTH (pmol/L)	5.04±1.61	79.0±77.3	0.0001
Glucose (mmol/L)	5.3±1.6	5.6±2.5	0.4185
Ferritin (𝜇g/L)	116.1±71.5	408.0±277.2	0.0001
Cholesterol (mmol/L)	4.6±1.08	4.5±1.7	0.6905
LDL-Ch. (mmol/L)	2.3±0.8	2.4±0.9	0.4964
HDL-Ch. (mmol/L)	1.6±0.8	1.2±0.5	0.0004
Triglycerides (mmol/L)	1.7±0.2	1.9±0.9	0.0935

GPP: general population patients; CHP: chronic hemodialysis patients; C-react. protein: C-reactive protein; Ioniz. Ca: ionized calcium; Ca × P: calcium × phosphate product; ALP: alkaline phosphatase; PTH: parathyroid hormone; LDL-Ch.: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-Ch.: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.