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Spearman's rank correlation coefficients of subscales of the ESRD-SCL with demographic and clinical variables |
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| n |
Limited physical capacity |
Limited cognitive capacity |
Cardiac and renal dysfunction |
Side effects of corticosteroids |
Increased growth of gum and hair |
Transplantation-associated psychological distress |
Total |
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| Age (years) |
53 |
0.22 |
0.18 |
0.18 |
-0.13 |
0.08 |
-0.06 |
0.09 |
| Female (2) vs. male (1) |
53 |
0.10 |
-0.04 |
0.25 |
0.34* |
-0.05 |
0.07 |
0.17 |
| Employment (yes/no) |
53 |
-0.38** |
-0.30* |
-0.23 |
-0.19 |
-0.37** |
-0.15 |
-0.34* |
| Time since transplantation (years) |
53 |
0.19 |
-0.01 |
0.14 |
-0.17 |
0.14 |
-0.21 |
0.02 |
| Charlson's comorbidity index |
53 |
0.24 |
0.19 |
0.20 |
0.04 |
0.03 |
0.06 |
0.17 |
| Hemoglobin (g/dL) |
53 |
-0.14 |
-0.01 |
-0.29* |
-0.13 |
0.11 |
-0.18 |
-0.20 |
| S-creatinine (umol/L) |
53 |
0.16 |
0.11 |
0.20 |
-0.04 |
-0.06 |
0.13 |
0.15 |
| CsA (2) vs. Tacrolimus (1) |
48 |
0.08 |
0.06 |
0.06 |
-0.05 |
0.48** |
-0.11 |
0.08 |
| No. of drugs for hypertension |
53 |
0.15 |
0.08 |
0.15 |
0.03 |
-0.22 |
0.17 |
0.14 |
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*<0.05 **<0.01 | ||||||||
Stavem and Ganss BMC Nephrology 2006 7:17 doi:10.1186/1471-2369-7-17 |
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