Predicting mortality in patients with diabetes starting dialysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While some prediction models have been developed for diabetic populations, prediction rules for mortality in diabetic dialysis patients are still lacking. Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify predictors for 1-year mortality in diabetic dialysis patients and use these results to develop a prediction model.

Methods

Data were used from the Netherlands Cooperative Study on the Adequacy of Dialysis (NECOSAD), a multicenter, prospective cohort study in which incident patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) were monitored until transplantation or death. For the present analysis, patients with DM at baseline were included. A prediction algorithm for 1-year all-cause mortality was developed through multivariate logistic regression. Candidate predicto

SUBMITTER: van Diepen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3942369 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature