The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 2 Comparison between the studied groups regarding serum electrolytes

From: Prevalence, risk factors and impact of proteinuria-associated hypomagnesemia in chronic kidney disease patients: cross-sectional study

Parameter	Groups		Test
	Proteinuric group	Non-proteinuric group	χ²	P
	N=50 (%)	N=50 (%)	χ²	P
Magnesium level:
Hypo	14 (28)	0 (0)	16.279	<0.001**
Normal	36 (72)	50 (100)
Potassium level:
Hypo	17 (34)	0 (0)	20.842	<0.001**
Normal	33 (66)	50 (100)
Sodium level:
Hypo	8 (16)	8 (16)
Normal	42 (84)	42 (84)
Calcium level:
Hypo	27 (54)	39 (78)	6.417	0.011*
Normal	23 (46)	11 (22)
Phosphorus level:
Normal	33 (66)	32 (64)	0.044	0.834
Hyper	17 (34)	18 (36)

χ² chi-square test
*P<0.005 is statistically significant
**P≤0.001 is statistically highly significant

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