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Table 1 Patient characteristics according to non-attendance in the first 4 months of the study

From: Hospitalization and mortality following non-attendance for hemodialysis according to dialysis day of the week: a European cohort study

 

Attended (83.3%)

Non-Attended (16.7%)

P

n

7467

1501

 

Age (mean (sd))

64.83 (14.72)

61.68 (15.16)

< 0.001

Interdialytic weight gain (Kg)

1.58 (1.06)

1.56 (1.10)

0.367

Systolic Blood Pressure (mmHg)

137.79 (24.15)

137.55 (24.72)

0.722

Diastolic Blood Pressure (mmHg)

71.34 (13.91)

73.43 (14.00)

< 0.001

Male (%)

4532 (60.7)

881 (58.7)

0.157

Dialysis Catheter

3408 (45.6)

743 (49.5)

0.007

Acute ischemic cardiac event

1107 (14.8)

199 (13.3)

0.126

Cancer

569 (7.6)

105 (7.0)

0.433

Cardiac Failure

1111 (14.9)

185 (12.3)

0.011

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

461 (6.2)

60 (4.0)

0.001

Cerebrovascular Accident

672 (9.0)

93 (6.2)

< 0.001

Depression

112 (1.5)

21 (1.4)

0.859

Diabetes

2581 (34.6)

509 (33.9)

0.647

Dysarrythmia

672 (9.0)

98 (6.5)

0.002

Gastrointestinal Bleeding

98 (1.3)

19 (1.3)

0.984

Liver Disease

197 (2.6)

38 (2.5)

0.883

Other Cardiac Disease

51 (0.7)

10 (0.7)

1.000

Peripheral Vascular Disease

808 (10.8)

143 (9.5)

0.150

  1. 429 patients (4.6%) excluded from table due to missing blood pressure and weight data during the first 4 months of the study