Fig 1.
Flow of patients with end-stage renal disease through recruitment process.
We also invited 180 community dwelling subjects to participation and 140 of them responded and performed the full study protocol. All participants were of European (white) descent.
Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of subjects.
Fig 2.
The results of 6-minute walk test by age group.
Median values for dialysis patients–solid line and controls–dashed line. Interquartile range for dialysis patients is marked by error bars. 25th, 75th percentile and median values for dialysis patients are presented below the chart together with median values for control subjects.
Table 2.
Association of the 6MWT with renal failure adjusted for demographic and anthropometric variables (ANOVA, general linear model).
Table 3.
Analysis of medical variables as predictors of 6-minute walk test result in dialysis patients.
Table 4.
Logistic regression analysis model of the probability of having a more than mild shortness of breath.