Serum Lipoprotein(a) Levels as a Predictor of Aortic Stiffness in Patients on Long-Term Peritoneal Dialysis

05 June 2024 : Clinical Research

Po-Yu Huang

^12BCDEF, Bang-Gee Hsu^345ABCDEFG, Yu-Li Lin^345ABCG, Chi-Chong Tang^34B, Hung-Hsiang Liou^6AD, Jen-Pi Tsai^135ABCDFG*

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.944348

Med Sci Monit 2024; 30:e944348

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Table 4 The correlation between log-transformed lipoprotein(a) level and clinical variables among 148 patients on peritoneal dialysis therapy.

Variables	Spearman’s correlation coefficient	P value
Female	−0.057	0.491
Diabetes mellitus	−0.052	0.530
Hypertension	0.038	0.644
Age (years)	0.127	0.125
Log-PD vintage (months)	−0.065	0.434
Body mass index (kg/m)	0.101	0.221
Waist circumference (cm)	0.100	0.225
SBP (mmHg)	0.160	0.052
DBP (mmHg)	0.070	0.399
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	−0.087	0.293
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	0.321	<0.001^*
Log-Triglyceride (mg/dL)	0.127	0.125
Log-Glucose (mg/dL)	−0.035	0.671
Albumin (g/dL)	−0.194	0.018^*
BUN (mg/dL)	0.234	0.004^*
Creatinine (mg/dL)	0.047	0.573
Total calcium (mg/dL)	0.061	0.460
Phosphorus (mg/dL)	0.098	0.238
Log-iPTH (pg/mL)	0.133	0.106
Weekly Kt/V	−0.106	0.201
Peritoneal Kt/V	−0.154	0.061
Log-total clearance of creatinine (L/week)	0.073	0.379
Peritoneal clearance of creatinine (L/week)	−0.019	0.817
Carotid-femoral PWV (m/s)	0.398	<0.001^*
Data of PD vintage, triglyceride, glucose, iPTH, total clearance of creatinine, and lipoprotein(a) levels showed skewed distribution and, therefore, were log-transformed before analysis. PD – peritoneal dialysis; SBP – systolic blood pressure; DBP – diastolic blood pressure; BUN – blood urea nitrogen; iPTH – intact parathyroid hormone; Weekly Kt/V – weekly fractional clearance index for urea; PWV – pulse wave velocity. ^*

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