Diminishing dry weight is strongly associated with all-cause mortality among long-term maintenance prevalent dialysis patients.

OBJECTIVES:To investigate the relationship between dry weight (DW) change and survival in long-term maintenance prevalent dialysis patients. METHODS:We conducted a prospective data collection study with retrospective analysis of the registered data. Patients were followed up for 5 years (1-year obse...

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Main Authors: Yuji Sato, Tatsunori Toida, Hideto Nakagawa, Takashi Iwakiri, Ryuzoh Nishizono, Masao Kikuchi, Shouichi Fujimoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6110511?pdf=render