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Dietary salt restriction during conservative therapy may prevent declines in residual renal function for the first year after starting peritoneal dialysis in patients with end-stage renal diseases

Tetsuaki Hiramatsu

Department of Clinical Engineering, Nagoya University Hospital, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

E-mail : bhuvaneswari.bibleraaj@uhsm.nhs.uk

Masashi Mizuno

Department of Renal Replacement Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Yasuhiro Suzuki

Department of Renal Replacement Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Sumiyo Nomori

Department of Clinical Engineering, Nagoya University Hospital, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Yoshiko Shiga

Department of Clinical Engineering, Nagoya University Hospital, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Ting Sun

Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Takako Ishii

Department of Renal Replacement Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Hiroshi Kojima

Department of Renal Replacement Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Takayuki Katsuno

Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Aichi Medical University, 1‑1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480‑1195, Japan

Tomohiro Nakamura

Department of Clinical Engineering, Nagoya University Hospital, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Tomoki Kosugi

Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Shoichi Maruyama

Department of Nephrology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Tomio Koyama

Department of Clinical Engineering, Nagoya University Hospital, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Satoshi Noguchi

Department of Clinical Engineering, Nagoya University Hospital, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

Yasuhiko Ito

Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Aichi Medical University, 1‑1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480‑1195, Japan

DOI: 10.15761/IFNM.1000276

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Background: Preservation of residual renal function (RRF) is an important factor in achieving adequate peritoneal dialysis (PD) therapy for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). We investigated whether dietary salt restriction was effective during conservative therapy as a factor to prevent decreased RRF after starting PD therapy.

Methods: We retrospectively observed 30 patients introduced to PD in a single center. To investigate the relationship between effects of a salt diet and decreased RRF in PD patients for the first year after starting PD, we divided patients into two groups according to salt intake before starting PD therapy: Group 1, <6 g/day; and Group 2, ≥6 g/day. Sodium intake was calculated using samples from 24-hour urinary collection and/or 24-hour peritoneal dialysate collection.

Results: Before starting PD, residual renal Kt/V (rKt/V) and CCre (rCCre) were significantly lower in Group 1 than in Group 2 (p<0.001 and p<0.005, respectively). Normalized protein-equivalent of nitrogen appearance was also significantly lower in Group 1 than in Group 2 (p<0.001), suggesting that Group 1 might also maintain good control of protein. Moreover, compared with Group 2, decline rates in rKt/V and rCCre during the first year were significantly lower in Group 1 (p<0.005 and p<0.001, respectively).

Conclusion: Our results suggested that restricting salt intake was not only important to preserve RRF during the conservative therapy period in ESRD patients, but also might be important to prevent early decreases in RRF among PD patients.

Key words

peritoneal dialysis, salt restriction, residual renal function

Introduction

In patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), peritoneal dialysis (PD) is one option for renal replacement therapies (RRT). Although PD therapy offers numerous advantages as an RRT, maintenance of long-term PD therapy is not easy. In past reports, including our own, many PD patients have needed to stop PD therapy because of frequent episodes of peritonitis, other PD-related complications, social problems, and the risk of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis [1-4]. However, failure to adequately remove uremic toxins and control body fluid volume are also important obstacles to achieving long-term maintenance of PD [2,4]. In particular, volume overload is reportedly associated with withdrawal of PD and reduced survival [5-7]. To maintain adequate control of body volume in PD patients, preservation of residual renal function (RRF) is known as an important factor not only to prevent withdrawal of PD, but also to decrease modality associated with cardiovascular disease [8,9].

In ESRD patients, interstitial accumulation of salt and extracellular fluid volume overload due to excessive sodium intake caused hypertension and congestive heart failure [10-12]. Recently, excessive salt intake has been reported to potentially induce local inflammation with lymphogenesis and develop organ injuries such as myocardial hypertrophy [13-15]. In fact, restriction of salt intake is an important factor in maintaining adequate body volume not only for dialysis patients, but also for pre-dialysis patients under conservative therapies as a recommendation for chronic kidney disease (CKD) [8,16,17]. In PD patients, preservation of RRF is important both for performing adequate PD and for generally improving prognosis [9,18].

The present study retrospectively investigated effects of a salt-restricted diet during conservative therapy to prevent decreases in RRF after starting PD therapy.

Methods

Patient population and background

The present study analyzed 30 of the 61 patients who started PD at Nagoya University Hospital between April 1st, 2010 and March 31st, 2016, and medical records were observed for more than one year. We excluded patients who had undergone severely invasive laparotomy and patients who died within one year after starting PD. A detailed list of the exclusion criteria is shown in Figure 1. Data collection from medical records and analysis were approved by the Ethics Committee for Human Research of the Faculty of Medicine at Nagaya University (#309-3) and consent was obtained from each patient prior to enrolment in the study. All patients used the Baxter PD system (Tokyo, Japan).

Figure 1. Detailed exclusion criteria for the present study. Thirty cases were evaluated from 61 cases. *Peritoneal dialysate; **Causes of death in three patients were suicide, aplastic anemia, and senility for 1 patient each

We collected background factors from medical records such as diabetes mellitus (DM) status, sex, age, body mass index (BMI), history of smoking, cardiothoracic ratio (CTR), use of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) and/or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-Is), use of diuretics, mean blood pressure (MBP), and data for the normalized protein-equivalent of nitrogen appearance (nPNA), serum levels of albumin (Alb), creatinine (Cre), sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphate, C-reactive protein (CRP), and total cholesterol (T-cho), and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) at the time of starting PD. In addition, medical records were used to obtain patient background characteristics (Table 1), laboratory data for 24-hour (h) urine collection before induction of PD therapy, and laboratory data for 24-h urine collection and 24-h peritoneal dialysate collection in the first year after starting PD therapy. Values of nPNA were used to estimate protein intake [19] and were calculated according to the formula proposed by Randerson et al. [20]:

Table 1. Background in 30 patients on peritoneal dialysis

Number of patients

30

Age, years (mean±SD)

58.6±14.4

Sex, n (%)

Male

20 (66.7)

Female

10 (33.3)

Cause of end-stage renal disease, n (%)

Chronic glomerulonephritis

6 (20.0)

Diabetic nephropathy

8 (26.7)

Nephrosclerosis

6 (20.0)

Others

10 (33.3)

*End-stage renal disease; **Angiotensin receptor antagonist; ***Angiotensin converting enzyme-inhibitor; ****Ratio of creatinine in dialysate to creatinine in plasma as peritoneal equivalent test; *****Cardiothoracic ratio; ******Normalized protein equivalent of nitrogen appearance.

Comparisons of values of rKt/V, rCCre, and urinary volume before starting PD and of decline rate of rKt/V during the first year after starting PD therapy between Groups 1 and 2

Under conservative therapy for ESRD, both rKt/V and rCcre were significantly preserved in Group 2 as compared with those in Group 1 (Figures 2A and 2B). Urinary volume (UV) was higher in Group 2 than in Group 1 (Figure 2C). Different from conservative therapy for ESRD, decline rates of both rKt/V, rCcre and UV were significantly slower in Group 1 than in Group 2 (Figures 2D-2F). Timings of the 24-h urinary collection test before starting PD and of 24-h urinary and PDF collection tests around 1 year after starting PD were also not significantly different between Groups 1 and 2 (Table 3).

Figure 2. Comparison of residual renal function between Groups 1 and 2. Values of residual renal Kt/V (rKt/V) (A), CCre (rCCre) (B), and urinary volume (C) under conservative therapy before starting peritoneal dialysis (PD) and rates of decline between starting PD and one year after starting PD (D, E, and F, respectively). Refer to the text for formulas to calculate rKt/V and rCCre

Table 2. Comparison of characteristics between Groups 1 and 2 at the time of PD induction

Group (n)

Group 1 (18)

Group 2 (12)

P-value

Age (mean±SD)

 

60.3±14.2

56.1±15.6

0.454

Sex

Male (n)

12

8

1.000

 

Female (n)

6

4

 

Smoking history

Yes (n)

1

0

1.000

 

No (n)

17

12

 

Case of ESRD*

Diabetic nephropathy (n)

5

3

0.561

 

Chronic glomerulonephritis (n)

4

2

 

 

Nephrosclerosis (n)

2

4

 

 

Others (n)

7

3

 

Catheter insertion method

Embedding (n)

Non-embedding (n)

10

8

10

2

0.235

Agents used before starting PD

ARB** and/or ACE-I*** (%)

7

9

0.07

 

Diuretics (%)

9

8

0.465

Agents used during 1st year after starting PD

ARB and/or ACE-I (%)

11

5

0.457

 

Diuretics (%)

13

11

1.000

Body mass index (mean±SD)

 

22.1±2.5

21.7±3.2

0.697

Mean blood pressure (mmHg)

 

96.2±11.6

99.1±10.6

0.492

4h D/P Cre****

(mean±SD)

 

0.73±0.13

0.76±0.08

0.452

CTR***** (%) (mean±SD)

 

48.3±5.6

47.4±6.1

0.669

Serum albumin level (g/dL) (mean±SD)

 

3.3± 0.5

3.5±0.6

0.363

Serum total cholesterol level (mg/dL) (mean±SD)

 

168.0±30.9

173.2±36.7

0.692

Blood hemoglobin level (g/dL) (mean±SD)

  

10.53±1.20

10.63±0.86

0.782

Blood urea nitrogen level (mg/dL) (mean±SD)

 

74.57±24.57

66.20±15.83

0.266

Serum creatinine level (mg/dL) (mean±SD)

 

8.18±0.62

8.30±0.99

0.799

Serum sodium  level (mEq/L) (mean±SD)

 

137.28±2.89

138.83±2.08

0.098

Serum potassium level (mEq/L) (mean±SD)

 

4.52±0.55

4.88±0.40

0.066

Serum calcium level (mEq/L) (mean±SD)

 

4.51±0.44

4.58±0.34

0.643

Serum phosphate level (mg/dL) (mean±SD)

 

5.29±1.30

 

5.31±0.88

0.610

Serum uric acid level (mg/dL) (mean±SD)

 

7.47±1.68

7.08±1.56

0.519

Serum C-reactive protein (mg/dL)

 

0.14±0.14

0.09±0.11

0.372

Proteinuria in  daily urine collection (g/day) (mean±SD)

 

2.23±2.06

3.31±2.55

0.207

nPNA****** (mean±SD)

 

0.62±0.15

0.83±0.18

<0.001

*End-stage renal disease; **Angiotensin receptor antagonist; ***Angiotensin converting enzyme-inhibitor; ****Ratio of creatinine in dialysate to creatinine in plasma as peritoneal equivalent test; *****Cardiothoracic ratio; ******Normalized protein equivalent of nitrogen appearance.

Value of D/P Cre during the first year after starting PD between Groups 1 and 2

Salt intake restriction did not significantly influence D/P Cre values during the first year after starting PD in the present study (Table 2). Although the timing of PET to obtain D/P Cre values varied because of the observational nature of the study, timing of the performance of PET did not differ significantly between groups (Table 3).

Table 3. Residual renal function (RRF) before and after starting peritoneal dialysis (PD) and change of decline in RRF

Group 1

Group 2

P-value

Examination timing of PET* (day) (mean+/-SD)

152.67(±48.10)

189.33(±157.86)

0.949

Examination timing of 24-h collection tests of urine and peritoneal dialysate at time of starting PD (Day) (mean±SD)

-3.5±7.56

-2.7±6.57

0.896

Examination timing of 24-h collection tests of urine and peritoneal dialysate around 1 year after starting PD (Day) (mean±SD)

366.1±50.9

386.7±61.3

0.326

*Dialysate-to-plasma creatinine concentration ratio as peritoneal-equivalent test.

Comparison of nutritional statuses such as BMI, serum Alb, and T-cho levels, and nPNA between Groups 1 and 2 when starting PD therapy

When we compared nutritional status between groups during conservative therapy for ESRD, BMI, serum levels of Alb and T-cho did not differ significantly between Groups 1 and 2 (Table 2). Notably, values of nPNA, reflecting protein intake, were significantly more in Group 2 than in Group 1 (Table 2).

In both groups, no deaths occurred during 3 years after starting PD. Technical failures resulted in the withdrawal of one case from each group within 2 years, and both cases were transferred to hemodialysis (HD) because of social problems. Because of the small numbers, we did not perform statistical analyses. In terms of the occurrence of cardiovascular disease, significant differences between groups were not observed within 3 years (p=0.184).

Discussion

In the present study, rates of decline in rKt/V, rCCre, and UV were lower in Group 1 than in Group 2 during the first year after starting PD. Our results suggested that a reduced-salt diet might be important in order to prevent early decreases in RRF among PD patients, at least during the first year. In contrast, when starting PD, RRF was less frequent in Group 1 than in Group 2. Restricting salt intake might also contribute to prolongation of the maintenance period of conservative therapy, preventing early induction of RRT during the conservative therapy period in ESRD patients. Values of nPNA were significantly lower in Group 1 than in Group 2 during the conservative therapy, suggesting that protein intake might be also well-performed in Group 1 and might help preserve conservative therapy in Group 1 with lower RRF than in Group 2 until starting PD. Although values of nPNA in Group 1 were also significantly lower than those in Group 2, serum Alb and T-cho levels and BMI were not significantly different between Groups 1 and 2, supporting the idea that diet in both groups did not significantly affect nutrition. This might suggest that the Group 1 population with restricted protein and salt in the diet showed better maintenance of conservative therapy than the Group 2 population.

Dialysis and ultrafiltration failure have been reported as important reasons for withdrawal, especially in cases with long-term PD therapy accompanied by RRF loss [2,3,8,9]. The CANUSA study of a large PD cohort indicated that preservation of RRF was related to survival in PD patients [25]. In particular, maintenance of RRF might have contributed to a decreased incidence of cardiovascular mortality, as loss of RRF was related to increased cardiovascular mortality [9]. In fact, survival was reportedly better in PD patients who maintained RRF than in those who lost RRF [18]. Maintenance of adequate body volume and dialysis in PD patients may be easier with preservation of RRF. In our results, the incidence of cardiovascular disease did not differ between Groups 1 and 2, though the observation period was within three years. Although excessive salt intake may possibly be related to body volume overload, salt intake might not have been sufficient to contribute to body volume control, or RRF may have been sufficient to adjust body volume with urinary sodium excretion, because CTR and MBP were not obviously different between Groups 1 and 2. In terms of the prognosis of both groups, all cases survived and one case in each group was withdrawn to hemodialysis under observation, although we could not statistically evaluate differences between Groups 1 and 2.

To prevent rapid declines in RRF among PD patients, reported factors include avoiding administration of nephrotoxic drugs, easy usage of radio-contrast agents, control of optimized blood pressure such as avoidance of hypotension, dehydration, and use of ACE-Is and/or ARBs [26]. Administration of ACE-Is and/or ARBs was reported to preserve RRF in a meta-analysis of dialysis patients [27]. However, in the present study, use of renin angiotensin-aldosterone system blockers such as ACE-Is and ARBs did not differ between groups for preservation of RRF.

Although a sodium-restricted diet has been suggested as important to preserve RRF, excessive hyponatremia was associated with mortality in PD patients [28]. Although excessive sodium restriction might not provide benefits [29,30], sodium restriction in the present study was limited within the lowest recommended amount by the Japanese Society of Nephrology [8] and serum sodium levels did not differ significantly between Groups 1 and 2.

Recent findings about salt and water balance suggest that sodium is stored in skin and muscle without comparative extracellular fluids in CKD patients [31]. Among in vivo and in vitro studies, high salt intake was reportedly associated with peritoneal fibrosis, peritoneal thickening, induction of epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and peritoneal inflammation [14,32], supporting the notion that restricting sodium intake benefits PD patients when restriction of sodium intake is not excessive.

As limitations to this study, the number of PD patients was small and multivariate analysis was not suitable. The observational period was also only one year. We therefore could not evaluate the prognosis of long-term PD. A future study may require analysis of a larger sample to validate our results and investigate the long-term prognosis of PD therapy and restricted salt intake.

In conclusion, our results suggested that a restricted sodium diet was important to prevent early declines in RRF among PD patients and to prevent early initiation of RRF.

Author contributions

Formal analysis, T.H.; S.N.; Y.S.; Y.S. and T.I.; Methodology, T.H.; Y.S.; and M.M.; Resources, T.I.; H.K.; T.K.; and T.K.; Supervision, M.M.; M.S.; S.N.; and Y.I.; Writing-original draft, T.H.; and M.M.; Writing-review & editing, Y.S.; M.M.; T.S.; T.N.; and Y.I. All authors have read the manuscript and provided constructive feedback.

Acknowledgements

We wish to thank the medical staff in the blood purification unit of Nagoya University Hospital for the collection of samples.

Conflict of interest

MM and YS currently work in the Department of Renal Replacement Therapy at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in positions endowed by Baxter Japan. The funders played no role in the present study.

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Editorial Information

Editor-in-Chief

Renee Dufault
Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received date: January 02, 2020
Accepted date: January 16, 2020
Published date: January 20, 2020

Copyright

©2020 Hiramatsu T. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation

Hiramatsu T, Mizuno M, Suzuki Y, Nomori S, Shiga Y, et al. (2020) Dietary salt restriction during conservative therapy may prevent declines in residual renal function for the first year after starting peritoneal dialysis in patients with end-stage renal diseases. Integr Food Nutr Metab 7: DOI: 10.15761/IFNM.1000276

Corresponding author

Masashi Mizuno

Department of Renal Replacement Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan

E-mail : bhuvaneswari.bibleraaj@uhsm.nhs.uk

Figure 1. Detailed exclusion criteria for the present study. Thirty cases were evaluated from 61 cases. *Peritoneal dialysate; **Causes of death in three patients were suicide, aplastic anemia, and senility for 1 patient each

Figure 2. Comparison of residual renal function between Groups 1 and 2. Values of residual renal Kt/V (rKt/V) (A), CCre (rCCre) (B), and urinary volume (C) under conservative therapy before starting peritoneal dialysis (PD) and rates of decline between starting PD and one year after starting PD (D, E, and F, respectively). Refer to the text for formulas to calculate rKt/V and rCCre

Table 1. Background in 30 patients on peritoneal dialysis

Number of patients

30

Age, years (mean±SD)

58.6±14.4

Sex, n (%)

Male

20 (66.7)

Female

10 (33.3)

Cause of end-stage renal disease, n (%)

Chronic glomerulonephritis

6 (20.0)

Diabetic nephropathy

8 (26.7)

Nephrosclerosis

6 (20.0)

Others

10 (33.3)

Table 2. Comparison of characteristics between Groups 1 and 2 at the time of PD induction

Group (n)

Group 1 (18)

Group 2 (12)

P-value

Age (mean±SD)

 

60.3±14.2

56.1±15.6

0.454

Sex

Male (n)

12

8

1.000

 

Female (n)

6

4

 

Smoking history

Yes (n)

1

0

1.000

 

No (n)

17

12

 

Case of ESRD*

Diabetic nephropathy (n)

5

3

0.561

 

Chronic glomerulonephritis (n)

4

2

 

 

Nephrosclerosis (n)

2

4

 

 

Others (n)

7

3

 

Catheter insertion method

Embedding (n)

Non-embedding (n)

10

8

10

2

0.235

Agents used before starting PD

ARB** and/or ACE-I*** (%)

7

9

0.07

 

Diuretics (%)

9

8

0.465

Agents used during 1st year after starting PD

ARB and/or ACE-I (%)

11

5

0.457

 

Diuretics (%)

13

11

1.000

Body mass index (mean±SD)

 

22.1±2.5

21.7±3.2

0.697

Mean blood pressure (mmHg)

 

96.2±11.6

99.1±10.6

0.492

4h D/P Cre****

(mean±SD)

 

0.73±0.13

0.76±0.08

0.452

CTR***** (%) (mean±SD)

 

48.3±5.6

47.4±6.1

0.669

Serum albumin level (g/dL) (mean±SD)

 

3.3± 0.5

3.5±0.6

0.363

Serum total cholesterol level (mg/dL) (mean±SD)

 

168.0±30.9

173.2±36.7

0.692

Blood hemoglobin level (g/dL) (mean±SD)

  

10.53±1.20

10.63±0.86

0.782

Blood urea nitrogen level (mg/dL) (mean±SD)

 

74.57±24.57

66.20±15.83

0.266

Serum creatinine level (mg/dL) (mean±SD)

 

8.18±0.62

8.30±0.99

0.799

Serum sodium  level (mEq/L) (mean±SD)

 

137.28±2.89

138.83±2.08

0.098

Serum potassium level (mEq/L) (mean±SD)

 

4.52±0.55

4.88±0.40

0.066

Serum calcium level (mEq/L) (mean±SD)

 

4.51±0.44

4.58±0.34

0.643

Serum phosphate level (mg/dL) (mean±SD)

 

5.29±1.30

 

5.31±0.88

0.610

Serum uric acid level (mg/dL) (mean±SD)

 

7.47±1.68

7.08±1.56

0.519

Serum C-reactive protein (mg/dL)

 

0.14±0.14

0.09±0.11

0.372

Proteinuria in  daily urine collection (g/day) (mean±SD)

 

2.23±2.06

3.31±2.55

0.207

nPNA****** (mean±SD)

 

0.62±0.15

0.83±0.18

<0.001

*End-stage renal disease; **Angiotensin receptor antagonist; ***Angiotensin converting enzyme-inhibitor; ****Ratio of creatinine in dialysate to creatinine in plasma as peritoneal equivalent test; *****Cardiothoracic ratio; ******Normalized protein equivalent of nitrogen appearance.

Table 3. Residual renal function (RRF) before and after starting peritoneal dialysis (PD) and change of decline in RRF

Group 1

Group 2

P-value

Examination timing of PET* (day) (mean+/-SD)

152.67(±48.10)

189.33(±157.86)

0.949

Examination timing of 24-h collection tests of urine and peritoneal dialysate at time of starting PD (Day) (mean±SD)

-3.5±7.56

-2.7±6.57

0.896

Examination timing of 24-h collection tests of urine and peritoneal dialysate around 1 year after starting PD (Day) (mean±SD)

366.1±50.9

386.7±61.3

0.326

*Dialysate-to-plasma creatinine concentration ratio as peritoneal-equivalent test.