BACKGROUND: There has been little study to date of daily variation in cardiac death in
dialysis patients and whether such variation differs according to dialysis modality and …

Frequent hemodialysis improves cardiovascular surrogates and quality-of-life indicators, but
its effect on survival remains unclear. We used a matched-cohort design to assess relative …

Background Use of home dialysis is growing in the United States, but few direct
comparisons of major clinical outcomes on daily home hemodialysis (HHD) versus …

Sudden and cardiac death rates in hemodialysis patients. Background Sudden and cardiac
death (including death from congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, and sudden …

Increasing hemodialysis frequency from three to six times per week improves left-ventricular
mass and health-related quality of life; however, effects on survival remain uncertain. To …

Background: The timing of medical therapies has been shown to influence the outcomes
and side effects of treatments for disease. This report examines the extent to which …

In thrice‐weekly hemodialysis, survival correlates with the length of time (t) of each dialysis
and the dose (Kt/V), and deaths occur most frequently on Mondays and Tuesdays. We …

Results Mortality, both all-cause and cardiovascular, was significantly higher during winter
compared with other seasons (14.2 deaths per 100 patient-years in winter, 13.1 in spring …

CARDIAC DISEASE is the major cause of death in dialysis patients and accounts for
approximately 45% of all-cause mortality. 1 About 20% of cardiac deaths in dialysis patients …

Hemodialysis (HD) is an intermittent procedure during which large fluid and electrolyte shifts
occur. We hypothesized that sudden death occurrences in HD patients are related to the …