Risk of major cardiovascular events in patients with hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis with special reference to stroke

Kim et al. determined the incidence rates of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) and compared several types of events between hemodialysis (HD) patients and peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients [1]. The authors handled 22,892 HD patients and 7,387 PD patients in Korea by intention-to-treat method, and median follow-up period was 21.5 months. The risk of several cardiac events in PD patients was significantly higher than that in HD patients. In contrast, the incidence rate of non-fatal hemorrhagic stroke in HD patients showed significantly higher than that in PD patients, and there was no significant difference of the incidence rate of non-fatal ischemic stroke between HD patients and PD patients.
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research