Tag: mortality

All-cause mortality higher, CVD deaths lower for female dialysis patients

A new retrospective cohort study published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) has found that women are more likely to die from...

Higher risk of all-cause mortality found in female patients after starting...

Compared with male patients, female patients have been found to have a higher risk of all-cause mortality in the first five years post-dialysis initiation—a...
home haemodialysis failure

Significant mortality increase seen after home haemodialysis failure compared to continued...

Failure of home haemodialysis (HHD) treatment, defined as a return to in-centre haemodialysis (ICHD), has been associated with a “significant increase” in mortality when...