Research Article

Corin Is Downregulated in Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury and Is Associated with Delayed Graft Function after Kidney Transplantation

Table 1

Clinical characteristics of the subjects.

DGF ()IGF () value

Recipient age (year)§0.640
Recipient male (no. (%))7 (63.6)11 (68.8)1.000
Weight (kg)§0.855
Dialysis vintage (month)12 (19.5)$7.5 (22.3)$0.412#
Hypertension (no. (%))9 (81.8)9 (56.3)0.231
Diabetes (no. (%))2 (18.2)2 (12.5)1.000
Donor age (year)§0.800
Donor male (no. (%))11 (100)14 (87.5)0.499
Cold ischemic time (hour)§0.493
NT-proBNP before transplantation (ng/l)3540 (7655)$2095 (2752)$0.120#
NT-proBNP after transplantation (ng/l)3410 (4020)$1420 (2107)$0.030#

§Data are expressed as . Fisher’s exact test; $median (interquartile range); #Mann-Whitney test.