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Summary of dialysis therapy in Japan as of 2017 (summarized from ref. 1)
| Modalities | No. (%) |
| Prevalence | |
| Hemodialysis | 228,089 (68.2) |
| Hemodiafiltration | 95,140 (28.4) |
| Other blood purification types | 1502 (0.4) |
| Home hemodialysis | 684 (0.2) |
| Peritoneal dialysis | 9090 (2.7) |
| Total | 334,505 (2640.0 per million people in the general population) |
| Incidence | |
| Hemodialysis | 38,842 (94.8) |
| Peritoneal dialysis | 2117 (5.2) |
| Total | 40,959 (323 per million people in the general population) |
| Deceased patients | 32,532 |
