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Comparison of dementia risk between end stage renal disease patients with hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis--a
Yi-Ting Lin1, Ping-Hsun Wu2, Mei-Chuan Kuo3
11] Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan [2] Department of Public Health, College of Life Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Abstract:
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, 1998 and December 31, 2007. During the study period, 3775 patients were diagnosed with dementia in the HD group (177.5 per 10,000 person-years incidence rate) and 181 patients in the PD group (145.9 per 10,000 person-years incidence rate). The results revealed that the higher hazard ratio of HD compared with PD for dementia disappeared after controlling for demographic characteristics, propensity score, and competing death risk (subdistribution hazard ratio was 1.086; 95% confidence interval, 0.940-1.255). In conclusion, HD did not increase the risk of dementia in dialysis-dependent patients compared to PD.
