TABLE 2.

Temporal trend of clinical outcomes in elderly patients with CKD after first vascular access (VA) insertion stratified by year of VA insertion and by age subgroups

Cohort	Initiated dialysis within 2 yrs	Died before dialysis	Survived and no dialysis
Full cohort (n=3,418)
2004-2005	801 (68.0)	206 (17.5)	171 (14.5)
2006-2007	806 (66.0)	181 (14.8)	235 (19.2)
2008-2009	697 (68.5)	128 (12.6)	193 (19.0)
Age 70-80 yr (n=2,131)
2004-2005	522 (69.1)	119 (15.8)	114 (15.1)
2006-2007	508 (66.8)	103 (13.6)	149 (19.6)
2008-2009	432 (70.1)	65 (10.6)	119 (19.3)
Age 80+ yr (n=1,287)
2004-2005	279 (66.0)	87 (20.6)	57 (13.5)
2006-2007	298 (64.5)	78 (16.9)	86 (18.6)
2008-2009	265 (65.9)	63 (15.7)	74 (18.4)

Values presented as number of patients and row percentage in parenthesis.

P<0.001 for full cohort; p=0.01 for age 70-80 yr; p=0.11 for age 80+ indicating differences between all three time periods.