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Relationship between Stroke and Mortality in Dialysis Patients.
CONCLUSIONS: Dialysis recipients have high mortality after a stroke with corresponding decrements in remaining years of life. Poststroke mortality does not differ by race. PMID: 25318759 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - October 15, 2014 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Wetmore JB, Phadnis MA, Ellerbeck EF, Shireman TI, Rigler SK, Mahnken JD Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research

Atrial fibrillation and risk of stroke in dialysis patients
Abstract: Purpose: Both stroke and chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) are common in dialysis patients, but uncertainty exists in the incidence of new strokes and the risk conferred by chronic AF.Methods: A cohort of dually eligible (Medicare and Medicaid) incident dialysis patients was constructed. Medicare claims were used to determine the onset of chronic AF, which was specifically treated as a time-dependent covariate. Cox proportional hazards models were used to model time to stroke.Results: Of 56,734 patients studied, 5629 (9.9%) developed chronic AF. There were 22.8 ischemic and 5.0 hemorrhagic strokes per 1000 patient...
Source: Annals of Epidemiology - January 18, 2013 Category: Epidemiology Authors: James B. Wetmore, Edward F. Ellerbeck, Jonathan D. Mahnken, Milind Phadnis, Sally K. Rigler, Purna Mukhopadhyay, John A. Spertus, Xinhua Zhou, Qingjiang Hou, Theresa I. Shireman Source Type: research