[Retracted] The Correlation between Serum Sclerostin Level and Arterial Stiffness in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Table 1

Comparison of general data of patients in two groups.

Factor	Low PWV group(n = 25)	High PWV group (n = 25)	P
Age	56.23 ± 13.24	65.43 ± 8.81	<0.001
Gender (male/female)	9/16	12/13	0.055
Height	158.01 ± 7.73	161.37 ± 7.49	0.314
Weight	59.38 ± 11.26	60.47 ± 10.63	0.658
BMI	23.57 ± 4.49	23.90 ± 3.61	0.621
Smoking	14	17	1.233
Dialysis time	30.31 ± 26.17	24.47 ± 15.31	0.131
Urea clearance index (Kt/V)	1.55 ± 0.54	1.67 ± 0.75	0.762
Residual renal function (RRF)	0.57 ± 0.63	0.59 ± 0.62	0.652
Systolic blood pressure (SBP)	134.34 ± 22.45	158.72 ± 22.36	0.006
Diastolic blood pressure (DBP)	83.76 ± 13.84	83.51 ± 14.27	0.112
Diabetes mellitus	2	8	<0.001
Hemoglobin (Hb)	114.67 ± 21.51	116.53 ± 18.74	0.591
Albumin (ALB)	37.39 ± 4.28	36.27 ± 3.64	0.138
Blood urea nitrogen (BUN)	23.15 ± 5.53	21.16 ± 5.62	0.145
Creatinine (CREA)	881.33 ± 247.83	742.41 ± 272.63	0.003
Uric acid (UA)	383.25 ± 93.69	404.92 ± 91.31	0.225
Parathyroid hormone (PTH)	2.09 ± 0.51	1.95 ± 0.49	0.775
Serum phosphorus (P)	1.66 ± 0.37	1.57 ± 0.35	0.104
Corrected calcium (Ca)	2.23 ± 0.32	2.21 ± 0.27	0.846
Calcium-phosphorus product	3.42 ± 1.43	3.38 ± 1.27	0.936
Total cholesterol (TC)	4.68 ± 1.02	5.03 ± 1.25	0.232
Triglyceride (TG)	2.03 ± 1.26	2.09 ± 1.28	0.832
Low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C)	3.15 ± 0.73	1.46 ± 0.97	0.42
High-density lipoprotein (HDL-C)	1.33 ± 0.35	1.44 ± 0.93	0.547
Fasting blood sugar (GLU)	5.63 ± 1.67	6.37 ± 2.56	0.083
Serum sclerostin	202.13 ± 20.14	433.37 ± 24.52	0.004
PWV	9.66 ± 1.35	13.36 ± 1.48	<0.001