Mortality rate of dialysis patients is high because of the risk for heart disease and infection. In hemodialysis patients major cause of mortality is Cardiovascular disease. In Peritoneal dialysis patients major cause of mortality is Infection (Peritonitis). read more
In a cross-sectional, multinational study and using data from the World Health Organization mortality database, a study by Yoshino et al. 3 found not only a close correlation between all-cause mortality rates and ASCVD mortality in the general population but also that this correlation was even stronger for dialysis patients. read more