Egyptian Liver Journal

Table 6 Correlation of the MIS with demographic and laboratory parameters

From: Malnutrition inflammation index in chronic haemodialysis patients with or without hepatitis C virus infection

Parameter	r	P value
Height	− 0.176	0.087
Body weight	− 0.254	0.012
BMI	− 0.404	0.030
Haemoglobin	− 0.043	0.677
RBCS	− 0.094	0.363
WBCS	− 0.130	0.207
Platelet count	− 0.077	0.455
Creatinine	− 0.018	0.860
Blood urea	− 0.078	0.450
S. sodium	0.029	0.780
S. total calcium	0.158	0.072
S. potassium	0.029	0.783
Total iron-binding capacity	− 0.063	0.544
Serum transferrin	0.093	0.368
Albumin	− 0.378	0.0001
C-reactive protein	− 0.072	0.486
HCV infection	0.287	0.005
Viral load	0.501	0.0009

BMI body mass index, MIS Malnutrition-Inflammation Score, r correlation coefficient; P value: P > 0.05 is non-significant and P < 0.05 is significant

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