Mortality reduction by post-dilution online-haemodiafiltration: a cause-specific analysis

• Published in: Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 548 - 555
• Main Authors: Nubé, Menso J, Peters, Sanne A E, Blankestijn, Peter J, Canaud, Bernard, Davenport, Andrew, Grooteman, Muriel P C, Asci, Gulay, Locatelli, Francesco, Maduell, Francisco, Morena, Marion, Ok, Ercan, Torres, Ferran, Bots, Michiel L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.03.2017
• Subjects: Aged; Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality; Cause of Death; Convection; Female; Hemodiafiltration - methods; Human health and pathology; Humans; Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy; Life Sciences; Male; Middle Aged; Mortality; Proportional Hazards Models; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Renal Dialysis; Urology and Nephrology; meta-analysis; mortality; cardiovascular disease; convection volume; haemodiafiltration

From an individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis from four randomized controlled trials comparing haemodialysis (HD) with post-dilution online-haemodiafiltration (ol-HDF), previously it appeared that HDF decreases all-cause mortality by 14% (95% confidence interval 25; 1) and fatal cardiovasc...