The association between self-management ability and malnutrition-inflammation-atherosclerosis syndrome in peritoneal dialysis patients: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Correlation of MIS with demographic and biochemical variables in PD patients

Variable	MIS
Variable	R	P
Age	0.329	0.001
BMI	−0.354	0.001
Number of hospitalizations	0.272	0.008
Presence of atherosclerosis	0.297	0.004
Albumin	−0.626	0.000
Prealbumin	−0.399	0.000
Hemoglobin	−0.256	0.014
Creatinine	−0.211	0.042
Ferritin	0.452	0.000
Transferrin	−0.275	0.008
Phosphorus	−0.220	0.034
IL-6	0.280	0.015
TNF-α	0.364	0.000
CRP	0.358	0.000
MIAS	0.682	0.000

BMI Body mass index, CRP C-reactive protein, IL-6 Interleukin-6, TNF-α Tumor necrosis factor-α, MIS Malnutrition inflammation score, MIAS Malnutrition-inflammation-atherosclerosis syndrome

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