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Table 1 Clinical and laboratory characteristics of ADPKD patients and control subjects

From: Early atherosclerosis in normotensive patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: the relation between epicardial adipose tissue thickness and carotid intima-media thickness

 

ADPKD patients (n = 55)

Controls (n = 50)

p value

Age (years)

38 ± 11.4

38.6 ± 10.1

0.674

Gender (males/females)

26/29

24/26

0.548

Body mass index (kg/m2)

24.1 ± 3.4

23.1 ± 2.9

0.327

Smoking (%)

34

34.5

0.559

Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)a

123.2 ± 10.1

122.9 ± 7.4

0.873

Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)a

75.7 ± 9.1

76.8 ± 6.8

0.499

BUN (mg/dL)

12 (8–28)

11 (7–24)

0.176

Creatinine (mg/dL)

0.76 ± 0.16

0.75 ± 0.11

0.881

Estimated GFR (mL/min)

107 ± 17

111 ± 17

0.270

Total cholesterol (mg/dL)

180 ± 28

179 ± 24

0.352

HDL cholesterol (mg/dL)

43.8 ± 8.4

45 ± 9.3

0.569

LDL cholesterol (mg/dL)

106 ± 28

104 ± 30

0.404

Triglycerides (mg/dL)

114 (44–700)

115 (43–333)

0.985

Uric acid (mg/dL)

4.8 ± 1.5

3.2 ± 0.9

<0.001

hs-CRP (mg/dL)

0.42 (0.22–1.19)

0.31 (0.13–0.9)

<0.001

Left ventricul ejection fraction (%)

72 (60–82)

70 (65–82)

0.009

Left ventricular mass (g)

188 ± 55

154 ± 36

<0.001

CIMT (mm)

0.7 (0.4–1.2)

0.5 (0.4–0.8)

<0.001

EAT thickness (mm)

6.8 ± 2.7

4.8 ± 1.2

<0.001

  1. ADPKD autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, GFR glomerular filtration rate, CIMT carotid intima-media thickness, EAT epicardial adipose tissue, hs-CRP high sensitive C-reactive protein, HDL high density lipoprotein, LDL Low density lipoprotein
  2. aBlood pressure measurements were performed at the office
  3. The results in italics identify the statistically significant values