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Meta-Analysis
. 2019 Nov;41(1):650-656.
doi: 10.1080/0886022X.2019.1632210.

Comparison of risk of stroke in patients treated with peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Xiaojiang Zhan  1 , Mei Yang  1 , Yanbing Chen  1 , Li Zhang  1 , Caixia Yan  1 , Yu Wang  1
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Meta-Analysis

Comparison of risk of stroke in patients treated with peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Xiaojiang Zhan et al. Ren Fail. 2019 Nov.

Abstract

Objective: Accumulating evidence has demonstrated that dialysis patients are at increased risk for stroke. However, the impact of dialysis modalities on stroke risk remains controversial. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the effect of peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis (HD) on stroke risk. Methods: A systematic search of PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science was performed to identify articles comparing the stroke outcomes of dialysis patients. Hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) were extracted and synthesized to examine stroke outcomes, including ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, and overall stroke. Results: The search yielded five studies composed of 1,219,245 patients that were evaluated in the final analysis. The results showed that PD was associated with a lower risk for hemorrhagic stroke compared with HD (HR = 0.78; 95% CI: 0.69-0.88; p < 0.001). For ischemic stroke, the results showed that PD was associated with a higher risk compared with HD among the non-Asian patients (HR = 1.13; 95% CI: 1.05-1.23; p = 0.002), but there were no significant differences between PD and HD for the Asian patients. Similarly, there were no significant differences between the effects of the PD and HD approaches on overall stroke risk. Conclusions: We observed that PD patients were less likely to develop hemorrhagic stroke than HD patients, and the risk for ischemic stroke was significantly higher for PD patients than for HD patients among the non-Asian patients. However, our findings could be biased due to the heterogeneity of the included studies.

Keywords: Peritoneal dialysis; hemodialysis; meta-analysis; stroke.

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Flow diagram of studies identified, included and excluded.
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Meta-analysis of stroke risks comparing PD with HD: (A) hemorrhagic stroke; (B) ischemic stroke; and (C) overall stroke.
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Subgroup analyses of ischemic stroke comparing PD with HD.
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Funnel plots of (A) hemorrhagic stroke; (B) ischemic stroke; (C) overall stroke in our study.
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