Background
Methods
Variables | Paricalcitol N = 37 | Paricalcitol N = 37 | No treatment N = 39 | No treatment N = 39 |
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Time point post Tx | 8 weeks | 1 year | 8 weeks | 1 year |
Age (years) | 56.0 (13.4) | NA | 54.2 (12.1) | NA |
Albumin (g/L) | 42.4 (2.4) | 43.3 (2.5) | 41.7 (2.5) | 43.3 (2.7) |
ALP (U/L) | 61.4 (21.7) | 58.4 (20.5) | 70.2 (28.0) | 71.4 (33.4) |
BMI (kg/m2) | 26.1 (3.2) | NA | 25.5 (3.9) | NA |
Calcium, total (mmol/L) | 2.4 (0.1) | 2.4 (0.1) | 2.4 (0.1) | 2.4 (0.1) |
Creatinine (μmol/L) | 114.4(24.5) | 110.3 (26.7) | 120.9 (29.6) | 114.6 (27.5) |
Phosphate (mmol/L) | 0.9 (0.2) | 0.9 (0.1) | 0.9 (0.3) | 0.9 (0.1) |
PTH (pmol/L) | 11.5 (5.7) | 7.9 (4.8) | 11.4 (5.3) | 9.9 (3.8) |
T50 (min) | 311 (35) | 319 (34.5) | 319 (34) | 323 (35.6) |
HLA mismatch | 3.1 (1.3) | NA | 3.0 (1.4) | NA |
Gender (% male) | 27 (73) | NA | 33 (84.6) | NA |
Smoking (% Yes) | 5 (13.5) | NA | 5 (12.8) | NA |
Living donor (% Yes) | 10 (27.0) | NA | 13 (33.3) | NA |
Predialytic transplantation (% Yes) | 13 (31.1) | NA | 12 (30.8) | NA |
Pretransplant diabetes (% Yes) | 7 (18.9) | NA | 6 (15.4) | NA |
Statistical methods
Results
Univariate | Multivariate | |||
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Variable | β (t-values)* | p-value | β (t-values)* | p-value |
Age (years) | −0.15 (−0.48) | 0.64 | 0.22 (0.64) | 0.53 |
Gender (% male) | 0.079 (0.01) | 0.99 | −6.30 (− 0.48) | 0.63 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 0.84 (0.74) | 0.46 | 0.69 (0.57) | 0.57 |
Smoking | 0.65 (0.08) | 0.94 | −3.12 (−0.25) | 0.80 |
HLA mismatch | 1.06 (0.36) | 0.72 | 0.81 (0.25) | 0.80 |
Living donor | 15.23 (1.77) | 0.08 | −2.83 (−0.26) | 0.79 |
Predialytic transplantation | 11.13 (1.31) | 0.19 | 11.12 (1.15) | 0.25 |
Pretransplant diabetes | −17.65 (−1.68) | 0.107 | −5.02 (−0.39) | 0.70 |
Treatment | −4.12 (−0.51) | 0.61 | 0.37 (0.04) | 0.97 |
T50 baseline (min) | 0.36 (4.12) | < 0.01 | 0.37 (3.44) | < 0.01 |
Albumin (g/L) | 1.03 (0.64) | 0.64 | 0.15 (0.08) | 0.94 |
ALP (U/L) | 0.02 (0.12) | 0.90 | 0.18 (0.95) | 0.35 |
Calcium (mmol/L) | 3.48 (0.07) | 0.93 | −6.11 (−0.12) | 0.90 |
Creatinine (μmol/L) | 0.01 (0.06) | 0.95 | −0.01 (− 0.04) | 0.97 |
Phosphate (mmol/L) | −4.79 (−0.30) | 0.76 | 5.07 (0.28) | 0.78 |
PTH (pmol/L) | −1.61 (−2.24) | 0.09 | −1.70 (−2.21) | 0.03 |