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Fig. 2 | Renal Replacement Therapy

Fig. 2

From: Comparison of peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis as first renal replacement therapy in patients with end-stage renal disease and diabetes: a systematic review

Fig. 2

Forest plot comparing all-cause mortality in diabetic patients receiving incident PD and those receiving incident HD. For this analysis, only publications reporting hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence interval (CIs) for all enrolled diabetic patients were included. We did not conduct a meta-analysis because of the high risk of bias in each study. The Marshall 2014 and Marshall 2016 studies used the same database, i.e., the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry (ANZDATA). In Marshall 2014, diabetic patients were divided into those with type 1 and those with type 2 diabetes, and we extracted the HR and 95% CI from the type 2 diabetes group. The Kim 2014, Kim 2015, and Kim 2017 studies were conducted using the same database, i.e., the Korean Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) database. In Nesrallah 2016, the control patients received home HD rather than conventional HD

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Renal Replacement Therapy

ISSN: 2059-1381

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