Table 6.
Number of patients on dialysis, stratified by geographic region and modality
| Geographic region | HD |
PD |
Total |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| East China | 5544 | 30.21 | 493 | 31.40 | 6037 | 30.30 |
| North China | 604 | 3.29 | 130 | 8.28 | 734 | 3.68 |
| Central China | 3095 | 16.86 | 259 | 16.50 | 3354 | 16.83 |
| South China | 1461 | 7.96 | 228 | 14.52 | 1689 | 8.48 |
| Northwest China | 725 | 3.95 | 135 | 8.60 | 860 | 4.32 |
| Southwest China | 6218 | 33.88 | 214 | 13.63 | 6432 | 32.28 |
| Northeast China | 706 | 3.85 | 111 | 7.07 | 817 | 4.10 |
| Total | 18,353 | 100 | 1570 | 100 | 19,923 | 100 |
HD, hemodialysis; PD, peritoneal dialysis.