Nontraditional risk factors in chronic kidney disease: correlation between creatinine clearance, Framingham risk score, endothelial dysfunction, and inflammation

The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 4 Correlation between IMT, age, inflammation and laboratory data in CKD

	IMT r Pearson correlation	p value
Age	0.692	0.0000
Creatinine Clearance	− 0.400	0.0285
hs CRP	0.229	0.2229
Ca x p product	0.249	0.1847
iPTH	0.021	0.9127
Bun level	0.114	0.5483
Total cholesterol	0.463	0.0100
Triglycerides	0.125	0.5104
HDL level	− 0.088	0.6476
LDL level	0.145	0.4439
Absolute brachial artery dilatation (absolute FMD) (mm)	− 0.344	0.0627

IMT intimal medial thickness, CKD chronic kidney disease, Hs CRP high-sensitivity c-reactive protein, Ca calcium, P phosphorus, iPTH intact parathyroid hormone, BUN blood urea nitrogen, HDL high-density lipoprotein, LDL low-density lipoprotein, FMD flow-mediated dilatation mm millimeter