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Objectives: The objective of this study is to compare and analyze the survivaldistributions of the different categories of the socio-economic and laboratory variables of theESRD patients. Through which we can see the difference between the categories of the individualcategorical variable with respect to the survival distributions. Data Sources: The sample of 40patients was taken from the two hospitals of Lahore city. Jinnah Hospital Lahore. Lahore GeneralHospital, Lahore. Design of the Study: The sample methodology of the study is the convenience6 sampling . Data Collection: The questionnaire was used to collect the primary data from thepatients. Period of the Study: All the patients were followed up during the study duration of 122days. Materials and Methods: To examine the significant difference in the different categories ofthe socio-economic and laboratory variables with respect to the survival distribution the Kaplan-Meier method is used. To illustrate the survival distributions the survival curve and hazard curve2 were used . Results: All the p-values of socio-economic and laboratory are very large except thep-value of the Serum Albumin which is very small and less than 0.05 level of significance. Thecategories of all the laboratory variables were classified into “Normal values Range” and “Othervalues out of range values”. The categories of the Serum Albumin are significantly different.Conclusions: It is concluded that the survival distributions of all the categorical variables areequal and do not differ significantly. Furthermore the laboratory variable Serum Albumin is2 significantly differing by the log rank test . So it is clear indication that the serum albumin is not thestatus variable of nutrition.