Table 1 Baseline data: participant characteristics, comorbidities and laboratory blood test results
Participants characteristics | Comorbidities | Laboratory blood test results |
|---|---|---|
Age (years) | Diabetes (documented diagnosis in medical history, including type and duration) | C-reactive protein (mg/L) |
Sex (male or female) | Retinopathy (documented diagnosis in medical history) | Serum albumin (g/dL) |
Height (m) | Known peripheral neuropathy (documented diagnosis in medical history) | Total calcium (mmol/L) |
Weight (kg) | Known peripheral arterial disease or history of lower extremity revascularisation procedure (documented diagnosis in medical history or documented lower extremity revascularisation procedure e.g. angioplasty) | Serum phosphate (mmol/L) |
Parathyroid hormone (pmol/L) | ||
Glycated haemoglobin (%) | ||
Haemoglobin (g/L) | ||
Body mass index (kg/m2) | Hypertension (documented diagnosis in medical history and must be requiring medication) | Â |
Smoking history (past, current, never) | Dyslipidaemia (documented diagnosis in medical history) | |
Living arrangements (living alone) | Ischaemic heart disease (documented diagnosis of ischaemic heart disease, angina, myocardial infarction or coronary bypass surgery in medical history) | |
Ethnicity | ||
• Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander) | ||
• English | Congestive cardiac failure (documented diagnosis in medical history) | |
• European | ||
• American | ||
• African | Cerebrovascular disease (documented diagnosis of cerebrovascular accident or transient ischaemic attack in medical history) | |
• Asian | ||
• Pacific Islander | ||
• Other | ||
Cause of end-stage renal disease | Â | |
• Diabetic nephropathy | Osteoarthritis (documented diagnosis in medical history) | |
• Hypertensive nephropathy | ||
• Chronic glomerulonephritis | Inflammatory arthritis (documented diagnosis in medical history of a type of inflammatory arthritis e.g. gout, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthropathy) | |
• Polycystic kidney disease | ||
• Reflux nephropathy | ||
• Renovascular disease | ||
• Vasculitis | ||
• Unknown | Other (any other documented medical conditions) | |
• Other | ||
Dialysis treatment | ||
• Haemodialysis | ||
• Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis | ||
• Automated peritoneal dialysis | ||
Duration of dialysis (months) |