Serum Potassium and Cause-Specific Mortality in a Large Peritoneal Dialysis Cohort | Zendy

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Serum Potassium and Cause-Specific Mortality in a Large Peritoneal Dialysis Cohort

Author(s) -

Klara Torlén,

Kamyar KalantarZadeh,

Miklos Z. Molnar,

Tania Vashistha,

Rajnish Mehrotra

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

clinical journal of the american society of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1555-905X

pISSN - 1555-9041

DOI - 10.2215/cjn.00960112

Subject(s) - medicine , peritoneal dialysis , confidence interval , odds ratio , potassium , gastroenterology , hemodialysis , dialysis , population , hyperkalemia , chemistry , environmental health , organic chemistry

Unlike hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a continuous therapy and does not induce myocardial stunning. Yet, the death risk in HD and PD patients is similar. This study tested the hypothesis that serum potassium abnormalities contribute more to the death risk in PD patients than in HD patients.

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