Acute kidney injury in patients with myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention using radial versus femoral access

Table 1 Basic clinical characteristics of patients

	Radial access N = 1377	Femoral access N = 2465	p
Age, years^a	64.3 (11.7)	64.9 (12.1)	0.17
Male gender, N (%)^b	975 (70.8)	1722 (69.9)	0.55
Diabetes, N (%)^b	281 (20.4)	584 (23.7)	0.02
Hypertension, N (%)^b	820 (59.5)	1392 (56.5)	0.066
Dyslipidemia, N (%)^b	596 (43.3)	1045 (42.4)	0.61
Anemia, N (%)^b	261 (19.0)	750 (30.4)	< 0.0001
Creatinine, mg/dl^a	0.96 (0.33)	0.99 (0.40)	0.023
Renal dysfunction, N (%)^b	223 (16.2)	491 (19.9)	0.04
ST-elevation MI, N (%)^b	563 (40.9)	1655 (67.1)	< 0.0001
Heart failure, N (%)^b	128 (9.3)	428 (17.4)	< 0.0001
Left ventricle ejection fraction, %^a	48.1 (5.8)	46.5 (7.6)	< 0.0001
Mehran score^c	2.0 (1.0, 5.0)	4.0 (1.0, 8.0)	< 0.0001

^aMean (standard deviation); comparison made using the t-test.; ^bComparison made using the chi-square test; ^cMedian (25th, 75th percentile); comparison made using the Mann-Whitney U test
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