Vitamin e-loaded membrane dialyzers reduce hemodialysis inflammaging

BMC Nephrology

Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristic of the chronic hemodialyzed patients

	CON	HD patients
N	14	18
Sex, M:F	6:8	10:8
Age, years^a	55.6 ± 5.8	59.9 ± 7.3^b
Time on HD, months^a	N/A	29.4 ± 17.1
ESRD cause, N:
Nephroangiosclerosis	N/A	7
Polycystic kidney disease	N/A	2
Interstitial nephritis	N/A	1
Chronic glomerulonephritis	N/A	3
Chronic pyelonephritis	N/A	1
Unknown origin	N/A	4

N number of patients, CON hospital staff healthy volunteers, HD hemodialysis; ^a, data are M ± SD; ESRD, end-stage renal disease; ^b, P=NS vs CON; N/A not applicable

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