The Interdialytic Creatinine Rise is a novel marker of volume overload and mortality risk in hemodialysis patients

Table 2 Characteristics of inpatients followed longitudinally for up to one week while undergoing hemodialysis every other day (Group 2 of Study 1)

Number of patients, n	33^b
Age, mean ± SD, years	58 ± 15
Women, n (%)	14 (41)
Race, n (%)
White	21 (64)
Black	8 (24)
Hispanic	3 (9)
Asian	1 (3)
Time on hemodialysis, mean ± SD, years	4.2 ± 2.1
Mean IDCR ± SD, mg/dL/h
Baseline (33 obs)^a	0.059 ± 0.020
One HD session (33 obs)	0.074 ± 0.023
Two HD sessions (11 obs)	0.082 ± 0.027
Three HD sessions (2 obs)	0.105 ± 0.005

Number of longitudinal observations (obs) is shown at baseline and after each hemodialysis session
^acalculated before first hemodialysis session after admission
^bcohort presented here has 21 patients in common with the cohort presented in Table 1

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