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However, because of the missing laboratory measurements we do not report these results in further detail, for example, for CRP there were several (1694) missing values (table 2).
A total of 163 patients who were receiving regular PD treatment were screened for inclusion, 66 of which refused to participate or were precluded to entry this study, 13 did not start the study due to various reasons (including transfer to HD, transplantation and mortality) and 2 were excluded because of missing laboratory measurements.
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Furthermore, the MNCM measurements may be subject to other criticisms (e.g., use of the last recorded measure to reflect chronic disease control, lack of adjustment for multiple chronic disease, treating missing laboratory values as lack of disease control).
Second, as a retrospective study, missing laboratory data was inevitable.
Missing laboratory values were interpolated if adjacent values were present.
In addition, we excluded those with missing laboratory data.
Normal values were imputed in place of missing laboratory data.
Missing values (i. e. missing laboratory parameters) also could have created a selection bias.
There were some missing laboratory results due to laboratory reagent shortage, or administrative errors.
N = 126 participants had to be excluded due to missing information on laboratory measurements (n = 32), physician's diagnosis of dyslipidemia (n = 90, all participants of DHS and 3 of HNR), and/or medication intake (n = 14).
Furthermore, there were missing data; for example, when patients had good clinical conditions fewer laboratory measurements were performed, resulting in difficulties in calculating SOFA scores.
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