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Comparative Study
. 2010 Mar;21(3):499-506.
doi: 10.1681/ASN.2009060635. Epub 2010 Feb 4.

Propensity-matched mortality comparison of incident hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients

Eric D Weinhandl  1 , Robert N Foley, David T Gilbertson, Thomas J Arneson, Jon J Snyder, Allan J Collins
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Comparative Study

Propensity-matched mortality comparison of incident hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients

Eric D Weinhandl et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010 Mar.

Abstract

Contemporary comparisons of mortality in matched hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients are lacking. We aimed to compare survival of incident hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients by intention-to-treat analysis in a matched-pair cohort and in subsets defined by age, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. We matched 6337 patient pairs from a retrospective cohort of 98,875 adults who initiated dialysis in 2003 in the United States. In the primary intention-to-treat analysis of survival from day 0, cumulative survival was higher for peritoneal dialysis patients than for hemodialysis patients (hazard ratio 0.92; 95% CI 0.86 to 1.00, P = 0.04). Cumulative survival probabilities for peritoneal dialysis versus hemodialysis were 85.8% versus 80.7% (P < 0.01), 71.1% versus 68.0% (P < 0.01), 58.1% versus 56.7% (P = 0.25), and 48.4% versus 47.3% (P = 0.50) at 12, 24, 36, and 48 months, respectively. Peritoneal dialysis was associated with improved survival compared with hemodialysis among subgroups with age <65 years, no cardiovascular disease, and no diabetes. In a sensitivity analysis of survival from 90 days after initiation, we did not detect a difference in survival between modalities overall (hazard ratio 1.05; 95% CI 0.96 to 1.16), but hemodialysis was associated with improved survival among subgroups with cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In conclusion, despite hazard ratio heterogeneity across patient subgroups and nonconstant hazard ratios during the follow-up period, the overall intention-to-treat mortality risk after dialysis initiation was 8% lower for peritoneal dialysis than for matched hemodialysis patients. These data suggest that increased use of peritoneal dialysis may benefit incident ESRD patients.

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Figure 1.
Intention-to-treat in the matched cohort showed lower death risk in PD when follow up began at initiation of dialysis. Risks were similar when follow-up began at day 90. HD, hemodialysis; PD, peritoneal dialysis.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Matched cohort, peritoneal-dialysis-to-hemodialysis HRs from dialysis day 0 in subgroups. CVD, cardiovascular disease.
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Figure 3.
Matched cohort, peritoneal-dialysis-to-hemodialysis HRs from dialysis day 90 in subgroups.
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