Vitamin D resistance in chronic kidney disease (CKD)

BMC Nephrology

Table 1 Demographics

	CKD	Transplant	RRT	P value^‡
N	309	43	46
Males	162 (52.4%)	24 (55.8%)	25 (54.4%)	0.90
Age^†	66·4 (14.2)	51·6 (11.9)	58.1 (17.5)	<0.001
Diabetes, only	1 (0.3%)	0 (0·0%)	0 (0.0%)	1.0
Hypertension, only	123 (39.8%)	25 (58.1%)	15 (32.6%)	0.03
Diabetic and hypertensive	171 (55.3%)	18 (41.9%)	29 (63.0%)	0.12
Non-diabetic and non-hypertensive	14 (4.5%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (4.4%)	0.44

^†Categorical variables are expressed as count (%); age as mean (SD); all other continuous variables as median (25^th percentile-75^th percentile).
^‡Based on chi-squared or Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables; t-test or Wilcoxon Rank Sum test for continuous variables.

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