Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, and Mortality after Hemodialysis Initiation.

CONCLUSIONS: Older patients on hemodialysis are at substantial risk of diagnosis with dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and carrying these diagnoses is associated with a twofold higher mortality. PMID: 30093374 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30093374?dopt=Abstract

Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - August 9, 2018 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: McAdams-DeMarco MA, Daubresse M, Bae S, Gross AL, Carlson MC, Segev DL Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research