Should we still focus that much on cardiovascular mortality in end stage renal disease patients?
Although the absolute risk of death is much higher, the proportion of cardiovascular deaths in a prevalent end stage renal disease population is similar to that of the general population. In older hemodialysis patients cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular death risk are equally important. Particularly the registration of dialysis withdrawal deserves attention. These findings may be partly limited to the Dutch population.
These findings indicate that increased HR on admission predicts for poor cardiac function and in-hospital death after AMI.