Dialysis

New dialysis research from National Taiwan University described

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, October 5th, 2009

According to a study from Taipei, Taiwan, "We enrolled 270 patients with sufficient urine amount (daily urine volume > 100 mL) from a medical centre in North Taiwan who began PD between January 1996 and December 2005 and followed them until December 2007. The study population was stratified by the decline rate of RRF into a fast, intermediate and slow decline group."

"The Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to determine patient survival and technique survival. The Cox regression model was used to identify factors associated with patient outcome. The proportional odds polychotomous logistic regression model was used to identify variables associated with rapid...

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2009-10-05)

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