Risk Factors Before Dialysis Predominate as Mortality Predictors in Diabetic Maintenance Dialysis patients.

ABSTRACT: Diabetic patients undergoing maintenance dialysis (MD) have a particularly high mortality rate. Many of the risk factors for mortality have been identified in diabetics who die before reaching end stage renal disease (ESRD), i.e. before dialysis (BD). In addition, many risk factors for mortality have been identified in diabetics after dialysis onset (AD). However, whether in the BD period there are long-term risk factors for AD mortality in diabetics is unknown. We therefore investigated a new concept, i.e. that clinical and biochemical risk factors during the BD stage affect long-term AD mortality. We performed a population based retrospective cohort study, in diabetic CKD patients in a single center in south Israel who initiated MD between the years 2003 and 2015. Clinical and biochemica

SUBMITTER: Tsur N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6650444 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature