Open AccessRisk factors for higher mortality at the highest levels of spKt/V in haemodialysis patients
Author(s) -
A. K. Salahudeen,
P. Dykes,
Warren May
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfg162
Subject(s) - medicine , dialysis , proportional hazards model , hemodialysis , hazard ratio , body mass index , kt/v , relative risk , surgery , confidence interval
The survival of patients on haemodialysis improves as the delivered doses of dialysis attain a Kt/V of 1.2 or more. However, a consistent yet paradoxical finding in the Kt/V survival relationship is that the mortality tends to increase at the higher ends of Kt/V.
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