| Mortality due to pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, and stroke among incident dialysis patients. | |
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PMID: 22970891 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Background: It is has been suggested that dialysis patients have lower mortality rates for pulmonary embolism than the general population, because of platelet dysfunction and bleeding tendency. However, there is limited information whether dialysis is indeed associated with a decreased mortality risk from pulmonary embolism. Objective: The aim of our study was to evaluate whether mortality rate ratios for pulmonary embolism were lower than for myocardial infarction and stroke in dialysis patients compared with the general population. Methods: Cardiovascular causes of death for 130,439 incident dialysis patients registered in the ERA-EDTA Registry were compared with the cardiovascular causes of death for the European general population. Results: The age- and sex-standardized mortality rate (SMR) from pulmonary embolism was 12.2 (95%CI 10.2-14.6) times higher in dialysis patients than in the general population. The SMRs in dialysis patients compared with the general population were 11.0 (95% CI 10.6-11.4) for myocardial infarction, 8.4 (95% CI 8.0-8.8) for stroke, and 8.3 (95% CI 8.0-8.5) for other cardiovascular diseases. In dialysis patients, primary kidney disease due to diabetes was associated with an increased mortality risk due to pulmonary embolism (HR 1.9; 95% CI 1.0-3.8), myocardial infarction (HR 4.1; 95% CI 3.4-4.9), stroke (HR 3.5; 95% CI 2.8-4.4), and other cardiovascular causes of death (HR 3.4; 95% CI 2.9-3.9) compared with patients with polycystic kidney disease. Conclusions: Dialysis patients were found to have an unexpected highly increased mortality rate for pulmonary embolism and increased mortality rates for myocardial infarction and stroke. © 2012 International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. |
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G Ocak; K J van Stralen; F R Rosendaal; M Verduijn; P Ravani; R Palsson; T Leivestad; A J Hoitsma; M Ferrer-Alamar; P Finne; J De Meester; C Wanner; F W Dekker; K J Jager |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-9-12 |
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Title: Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH Volume: - ISSN: 1538-7836 ISO Abbreviation: J. Thromb. Haemost. Publication Date: 2012 Sep |
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Created Date: 2012-9-13 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101170508 Medline TA: J Thromb Haemost Country: - |
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© 2012 International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. |
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Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Division of Nephrology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Division of Nephrology, Internal Medicine Services, Landspítali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Department of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway Department of Nephrology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Department of Epidemiology, Conselleria Sanitat, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain Finnish Registry for Kidney Diseases, Helsinki, Finland Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Hypertension, AZ Nikolaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University Hospital, Würzburg, Germany. |
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