Fig. 1

Serum Angpt-1, Angpt-2, sTie-2 concentration and Angpt-1/Angpt-2 ratio in relation to the presence of zero (n = 138), one (n = 118), two (n = 62) and all three (n = 6) components of the malnutrition, inflammation, atherosclerosis/calcification syndrome. Malnutrition was defined as serum albumin < 30 g/L, inflammation was defined as hs-CRP ≥ 5 mg/L, atherosclerosis/calcification was defined by the presence of background AVD or cardiac VC