Impacts of age, diabetes, gender, and access type on costs associated with vascular access among Chinese patients on hemodialysis.

CONCLUSION: HD patients aged >75 years had significantly higher annual VA-related costs. However, the annual VA-related costs did not differ across the diabetes groups or the gender groups. AVF was the most cost-effective permanent VA type in China, partly due to the inexpensive materials used compared to AVG or tcCVC.
PMID: 33016167 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The International Journal of Artificial Organs - October 3, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Xiong Y, Yu Y, Yang Y, Wang L, Shi P, Deng Y, Li Y, Fu P Tags: Int J Artif Organs Source Type: research