Results
Clinical characteristics of the dialysis population are provided
in Table 1. Dialysis patients without diabetes had a
slightly lower body mass index (p =0.013), but otherwise
did not differ from diabetes patients in this cohort. Diabetic
nephropathy was the cause of renal failure in fortyone
(52%) of the diabetes patients undergoing dialysis.
The comorbidity scores differed between these groups,
with the highest scores in the dialysis patients with
diabetes [Table 1]. However, after removing the diabetes
and diabetic nephropathy variables, there was no longer
a significant difference in comorbidity scores between
the two groups (median 3 IQR 2–4 vs. 3, 2–4, mean
3.5 ± 1.5 and 3.3 ± 1.3).