The Correlations of Age, Weight, Body Mass Index (BMI), Dialized Volume and Total Protidemia, With Somatic Variables in a Population of 27 Females and 34 Males Undergoing Chronic Peritoneal Dialysis

Giancarlo Ruggieri

body mass index (BMI), Protidemia.

Premise – The purpose of the present paper bases on the study of the correlations existing between age, weight, body mass index (BMI), dialized volume and total protidemia with a series of somatic variable, many of them linked to nutrition conditions  : for instance, the correlation between age and creatininemia : the plasmatic value of this last depends on renal function but also on the muscle mass, that is depending in its turn on  the age and also by the nutrition conditions : a significant correlation between age and creatininemia, in presence of a normal creatininemia, let us know the degree of body nutrition, Therefore the not significant correlations show the absence of an adequate dependence between the predicting variable and the predicted response : in the case of the example above, it should be probable that the influence of other physic conditions  caused the failure of a direct relationship   between age and creatininemia.

https://doi.org/10.31871/WJRR.11.6.3