Association between autonomic nervous dysfunction and cellular inflammation in end-stage renal disease

Table 1 Demographic and anthropomorphometric information on study participants

	Controls	Diabetic HD	Nondiabetic HD	All HD
N	15	14	14	28
Age (years)	58.0 [13.0]	70.5 [9.75]***	62.0 [17.25]	68.0 [14.75]
Gender (w/m)	10/5	5/9	7/7	12/16
Dialysis vintage (years)	n/a	3.5 [3.2]	5.2 [5.9]	4.3 [5.8]
BMI (kg/m²)	26.8 [5.2]	30.1 [6.0]	24.5 [6.4]	27.5 [8.2]
Waist-to-hip-ratio (WTH)	1.0 [0.28]	1.02 [0.14]	0.97 [0.18]	1.0 [0.16]
Blood pressure s/d (mmHg)	130.0 [10.0]/83.0 [15.0]	121.5 [42.8]/70.5 [28.0]**	120.5 [44.8]/68.5 [13.3]**	120.5 [39.0]/68.5 [23.5]

** = p < 0.01 vs. controls; *** = p < 0.001 vs. controls; by nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn’s test. Statistical tests were done for the three groups controls, diabetic and nondiabetic patients. The column “all HD” remained untested

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