The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 4 The relation between blood lead level and other variables in cases, showing factors associated with high blood lead levels

From: The correlation between uremic pruritus and blood lead levels in prevalent hemodialysis patients and its relation to the severity of pruritus using visual analog score

	r (correlation coefficient)	P value	Statistical significance
Age	− 0.076	0.647	NS
Creatinine (mg/dl)	0.109	0.502	NS
Urea (mg/dl)	0.437	0.005	HS
Hb (g/dl)	− 0.264	0.009	NS
TLC	0.139	0.391	NS
Corrected calcium (mg/dl)	− 0.05	0.76	NS
Phosphorus (mg/dl)	− 0.108	0.507	NS
PTH (ng/l)	0.189	0.244	NS
Albumin (g/dl)	0.123	0.451	NS
CRP	− 0.117	0.471	NS
nPCR (mg/g/day)	− 0.017	0.916	NS
Ferritin (ng/ml)	− 0.089	0.584	NS
Kt/v (Daugirdes)	0.328	0.039	SS
Duration of dialysis (years)	0.38	0.016	SS

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