Quality of life among patients with moderate to advanced chronic kidney disease in Ghana - a single centre study

BMC Nephrology

Table 6 Simple linear regression analysis of independent variables of overall mean quality of life score in patients with chronic kidney disease n = 202

Variable	Coefficient	Standard error	t	95% confidence interval	P value
Age	− 0.01	0.07	0.86	−0.14–−0.12	0.862
Educational level	1.52	2.17	0.70	−2.76–5.80	0.486
Employment status	−0.92	2.17	−0.42	−5.20–3.37	0.673
Low income	−0.84	2.72	−3.62	−15.21–4.48	< 0.001
Marital status	2.07	2.32	0.89	−2.50–6.65	0.373
Hypertension	−3.52	2.34	−1.50	−8.14–1.10	0.134
Hemoglobin	2.06	0.41	5.06	1.26–2.86	< 0.001
MCV	0.34	0.14	2.39	0.06–0.62	0.018
MCH	0.50	0.34	1.45	−0.18–1.17	0.148
Uraemia	−7.83	2.19	−3.58	−12.15–−3.51	< 0.001
CKD stage 5	−8.50	2.33	−3.64	−13.10–−3.90	< 0.001
ESA use	1.69	3.72	0.45	−5.65–9.03	0.650
IV Iron	10.19	7.77	1.31	−5.13–25.51	0.191

MCV mean corpuscular volume, MCH mean corpuscular haemoglobin, CKD 5 chronic kidney disease with GFR < 15 ml/min/1.73 m2, ESA erythropoietin stimulating agent, IV intravenous, uraemia urea> 20 mmol/L

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