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SUBMITTER: Lin YT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4340159 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Yi-Ting YT Wu Ping-Hsun PH Kuo Mei-Chuan MC Chen Cheng-Sheng CS Chiu Yi-Wen YW Yang Yi-Hsin YH Lin Ming-Yen MY Hwang Shang-Jyh SJ Chen Hung-Chun HC
Scientific reports 20150223
A higher risk of dementia was reported in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (HD) compared to those undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD). Selection bias and competing risk of death were not considered in previous studies. The aim of this study was to investigate dementia risk in patients undergoing HD and PD by using the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Database. We enrolled 52,332 incident HD patients and 3292 incident PD patients who were older than 40 years between January 1, 199 ...[more]