Socioeconomic Disadvantage, All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in Patients Treated With Maintenance Dialysis: A Mediation Analysis of Geographical Inequity and Multimorbidity.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

Social gradient in health (a "social gradient in health" refers to the observed pattern in which individuals with lower socioeconomic status typically experience poorer health outcomes than those with higher socioeconomic status. This indicates that health disparities exist across different social levels, with the most disadvantaged groups experiencing the worst health outcomes) is significant and established in patients with kidney failure, but the pathways of this relationship are unknown. We aimed to assess the mediating effects of multimorbidity and geographical remoteness in the socioeconomic status (SES)-death associations.

Study design

A cohort study.

Setting & participants

All patients with kidney failure aged 18 years and above, who comm

SUBMITTER: Boroumand F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12362684 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature