Posted on 01/20/2023 3:25:13 PM PST by ConservativeMind
The risk for newly diagnosed gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is increased for patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) versus peritoneal dialysis (PD), according to a study.
Chieh-Hsin Huang and colleagues examined whether HD and PD confer different incidence of GI bleeding in a retrospective cohort study involving all incident dialysis patients older than 18 years of age from the National Health Insurance database in Taiwan from 1998 to 2013. A total of 6,296 matched pairs of HD and PD patients were identified. To minimize selection bias, a propensity score-matching method was used.
The researchers found that in the HD group, the adjusted hazard ratio for GI bleeding was 1.13 times higher than in the PD group; similar results were seen in the unmatched cohort and in a stratified analysis. In a subgroup analysis, the use of anticoagulants was found to induce a much higher incidence of GI bleeding in HD patients than in PD patients.
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PD has other some benefits too. People can easily do it at home and they can do it more frequently than HD patients. But a lot of people don’t like the idea of a port in their belly.
yeah rivht, do it at home, with no trained technician in case your blood pressure bottoms out.
i am an HD, that has bp problems.
How ya gonna call 911 when your body is all tingly fuzzy and you are seeing purple?
PD is not available to me as I’m about to get a kidney transplant. so I got a fistula in preparation for HD, but hopefully I will skip and go directly to transplant.
I hope you get a transplant quickly.
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