Table 1.

List of inclusion and exclusion criteria for study selection

	Inclusion	Exclusion
Population	Patients with end-stage renal disease (stage 5 CKD) undergoing haemodialysis .	Paediatric population (<18 years old) Incident haemodialysis patients (<1 month) Critically ill (eg, intensive care unit)
Intervention	Dialysis centre-based haemodialysis Home-based haemodialysis	Peritoneal dialysis Non-standard haemodialysis settings (electrolyte concentrations of dialysate, temperature, etc) Unrelated interventions such as nutritional, pharmaceutical and physical exercise interventions
Outcome	Functional indices of arterial stiffness: carotid-femoral PWV, carotid-radial PWV, brachial-ankle PWV, femoral-tibial PWV, Cardio-ankle Vascular Index, pulse wave analysis (Augmentation Index and central pulse pressure), Stiffness Index, compliance and distensibility	Peripheral pressure (brachial, finger, toe, etc)
Study design	Repeated measures surrounding a single haemodialysis session Randomised controlled and cross-over trials (if standard care group) Non-randomised prospective studies (before-and-after design) Articles in English, French, Italian and Spanish languages	In vitro or mathematical modelling reports Case reports Animal studies Substudies of previously reported trials Narrative reviews Duplicates

CKD, chronic kidney disease; PWV, pulse wave velocity.