Blood volume-monitored regulation of ultrafiltration to decrease the dry weight in fluid-overloaded hemodialysis patients: a randomized controlled trial

Table 6 Course of amount of antihypertensive medication

				p-value⁺
	CONV	UTR	UCR	Overall
Among N particips. w. dry weight reduction	12	17	14
Antihypertensives per Pat: BCM Meas’ment	3.3 ± 1.4	2.9 ± 2.1	3.5 ± 1.9	0.65
Antihypertensives per Pat: DW reduct. End	2.2 ± 0.8	2.4 ± 2.0	2.9 ± 1.6	0.73
Antihypertensives withdrawn per Pat	1.6 ± 1.1	0.5 ± 1.0	0.4 ± 0.7	0.08

CONV conventional hemodialysis, UTR ultrafiltration and temperature regulation, UCR ultrafiltration and dialysate conductivity regulation, N number, ECV extracellular volume, SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, BCM body composition monitor
PP analysis. ⁺ P-values between groups determined by two-tailed t-test, and Mann-Whitney U test. Overall p-values determined by analysis of variance and analysis of covariance (for comparison of repeated measures). In one patient from the UTR group only absolute fluid overload values could be measured; relative fluid overload values could not be calculated by the BCM device due to technical issues, resulting in deviation of the FO value from ECV

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