Falls in systolic blood pressure during dialysis which require no nursing intervention are associated with increased patient intra-dialytic symptom self-reporting and prolonged post-dialysis recovery times

Table 4 Spearman univariate association with self-reported total dialysis symptom score

Variable	rho	p value
Distress thermometer score	0.46	< 0.001
Time to recover post dialysis	0.38	< 0.001
Female gender	0.29	< 0.001
Age years	− 0.13	0.001
Systolic blood pressure < 100 mmHg	0.12	0.003
Urea reduction ratio %	0.10	0.012
Fall in systolic blood pressure mmHg	0.12	0.013
C reactive protein mg/L	0.09	0.029

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