Oral sodium bicarbonate in people on haemodialysis: a randomised controlled trial

BMC Nephrology

Table 5 Blood pressure and inter-dialytic weight gain in intervention and control groups

	No treatment		Week 5-8			Week 13-16			Final dose
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p value^a	Mean	SD	p value^a	Mean	SD	p value^b
Intervention (N = 16)
Pre HD systolic pressure	136	14	138	15	0.53	141	15	0.95	142	16	0.005*
Pre HD diastolic pressure	78	11	80	12	0.44	84	9	0.65	82	11	0.021*
ID weight gain (kg)	2.52	1.13	2.48	0.97	0.15	2.74	0.96	0.044*	2.61	0.97	0.46
Control (N = 20)
Systolic pressure	143	18	141	16		141	18
Diastolic pressure	84	12	83	11		82	11
ID weight gain (kg)	2.07	1.28	1.93	1.17		1.96	1.13

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