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SUBMITTER: Brunelli SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2864594 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brunelli Steven M SM Chertow Glenn M GM Ankers Elizabeth D ED Lowrie Edmund G EG Thadhani Ravi R
Kidney international 20100120 7
There is an association between hemodialysis session length and mortality independent of the effects of session duration on urea clearance. However, previous studies did not consider changes in session length over time nor did they control for the influence of time-dependent confounding. Using data from a national cohort of 8552 incident patients on thrice-weekly, in-center hemodialysis, we applied marginal structural analysis to determine the association between session length and mortality. Ex ...[more]