Table 2.
Outcomes of incident HD and PD patients in Australian and New Zealand 1991 to 2007 by presence of CVD at baselinea
| Parameter | No CVD |
CVD |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PD (n = 3323) | HD (n = 8902) | PD (n = 3198) | HD (n = 9164) | |
| Follow-up duration (patient-years) | 10,822 | 24,096 | 9643 | 21,444 |
| Total deaths | 1124 (10.39) | 2237 (9.28) | 2454 (25.45) | 4483 (20.91) |
| Cardiovascular deaths | ||||
| myocardial ischemia/infarction | 241 (2.23) | 332 (1.38) | 709 (7.35) | 1011 (4.71) |
| pulmonary edema | 8 (0.07) | 21 (0.09) | 14 (0.15) | 38 (0.18) |
| hypertensive cardiac failure | 5 (0.05) | 9 (0.04) | 8 (0.08) | 21 (0.10) |
| other cause of cardiac failure | 149 (1.38) | 322 (1.34) | 352 (3.65) | 664 (3.10) |
| cardiac arrest (cause uncertain) | 20 (0.18) | 45 (0.19) | 53 (0.55) | 63 (0.29) |
| cerebrovascular accident | 66 (0.61) | 107 (0.44) | 140 (1.45) | 257 (1.20) |
| aortic aneurysm rupture | 0 (0.00) | 10 (0.04) | 12 (0.12) | 29 (0.14) |
| bowel infarction | 24 (0.22) | 45 (0.19) | 29 (0.30) | 55 (0.26) |
| withdrawal because of cardiac disease | 11 (0.10) | 43 (0.18) | 59 (0.61) | 195 (0.91) |
| withdrawal because of CVD | 20 (0.18) | 34 (0.14) | 44 (0.46) | 123 (0.57) |
| withdrawal because of peripheral vascular disease | 13 (0.12) | 30 (0.12) | 67 (0.69) | 171 (0.80) |
| total | 557 (5.15) | 998 (4.14) | 1487 (15.42) | 2627 (12.25) |
| Modality change | 1120 (34%) | 1874 (21%) | 1013 (32%) | 2110 (23%) |
| Renal transplantation | 969 (29%) | 2469 (28%) | 191 (6%) | 451 (5%) |
| Lost to follow-up | 2 (0.1%) | 6 (0.1%) | 3 (0.1%) | 8 (0.1%) |
| Recovery of renal function | 2 (0.1%) | 73 (0.8%) | 4 (0.1%) | 74 (0.8%) |
a
Death outcomes are expressed as number (incidence rate per 100 patient-years).