Kidney International - Table 1 for article: Survival advantage in Asian American end-stage renal disease patients1

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Survival advantage in Asian American end-stage renal disease patients

Joyce S Wong, Friedrich K Port, Tempie E Hulbert-Shearon, Caitlin E Carroll, Robert A Wolfe, Lawrence Y C Agodoa and John T Daugirdas

		Mean or percent
Patient characteristics	Acceptable range	White	Asian	P value
Male	%	55.9	50.4	0.001
Age at incidence	>18 years	63.1	61.2	0.0001
Height	122–214 cm	168.1	161.2	0.0001
Weight	37.5–125 kg	71.9	61.6	0.0001
BMI	kg/m²	25.5	23.6	0.0001
Serum albumin	0.8–6.0 g/dl	3.3	3.2	0.0001
Hematocrit	9–60%	28.6	27.8	0.0001
Hemoglobin	3–18 g/dl	9.6	9.3	0.0001
BUN	24–250 mg/dl	94.8	97.0	0.0001
Serum creatinine	3–33 mg/dl	8.1	9.1	0.0001
GFR Levey formula	ml/min	7.1	6.2	0.0001
GFR Walser formula	ml/min	5.6	3.6	0.0001
Primary cause of ESRD^a	% yes
Diabetes		44.0	46.5	0.001
Hypertension		23.6	22.1	0.025
Glomerulonephritis		11.6	16.4	0.001
Cystic kidney disease		3.3	1.9	0.001
Other urologic cause		2.5	1.5	0.001
Other cause		11.2	7.0	0.001
Unknown cause		4.0	4.7	0.015
Number of comorbidities		1.9	1.3	0.0001
Comorbidities	% yes
AIDS		0.1	0.0	0.038
Cancer		5.7	2.1	0.001
Cardiac arrest		1.1	0.5	0.001
Cardiac dysrhythmia		6.7	3.6	0.001
Cerebrovascular accident		9.1	6.6	0.001
Congestive heart failure		35.1	25.8	0.001
COPD		8.5	2.8	0.001
Diabetes mellitus		50.9	51.2	0.674
HIV positive		0.1	0.0	0.064
Hypertension		69.8	68.0	0.011
Ischemic heart disease		27.4	15.9	0.001
Myocardial infarction		10.8	5.2	0.001
Peripheral vascular disease		17.0	7.2	0.001
Smoker		6.3	1.9	0.001

^a Overall P value = 0.0001