Open AccessCan Rescaling Dose of Dialysis to Body Surface Area in the HEMO Study Explain the Different Responses to Dose in Women versus Men?
Author(s) -
John T. Daugirdas,
Tom Greene,
Glenn M. Chertow,
Thomas A. Depner
Publication year - 2010
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.02350310
Subject(s) - medicine , body surface area , hazard ratio , hemodialysis , dialysis , anthropometry , urology , nuclear medicine , confidence interval
In the Hemodialysis (HEMO) Study, the lower death rate in women but not in men assigned to the higher dose (Kt/V) could have resulted from use of "V" as the normalizing factor, since women have a lower anthropometric V per unit of surface area (V/SA) than men.
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