Comparison of baseline data between chronic kidney disease patients starting hemodialysis who live near and far from the dialysis center

Introduction: The treatment offered to chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients before starting hemodialysis (HD) impacts prognosis. Objective: We seek differences among incident HD patients according to the distance between home and the dialysis center. Methods: We included 179 CKD patients underg...

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Main Authors: Paulo Roberto Santos, Cecília Costa Arcanjo, Sânkia Maria Lopes Aragão, Fernando Lopes Ponte Neto, Antônio Robson Gomes Ximenes, Janaína Teixeira Pereira Carneiro Tapeti, Hyngridd Soares Mendes, Luise Vasconcelos Vieira, Rita de Cássia Parente Prado, Marcela Lopes Lima, Wirvig Dionnas Cassemiro Adeodato, Ivo Antônio Mendes de Menezes, Mairla Maracaba Moreira, Estevam Nelson Moura de Oliveira, Thais Costa Ehrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Nefrologia 2014-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Nephrology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-28002014000300375&lng=en&tlng=en