Fernanda Albuquerque da Silva, Marcia Tereza Silva Martins, Gabriel Brayan Gutiérrez-Peredo, Angiolina Campos Kraychete, Carolina Cartaxo Penalva, Marcelo Barreto Lopes, Cacia Mendes Matos, Antonio Alberto Lopes
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Some studies on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients report a longer survival, albeit with poorer health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and more depression symptoms in women than in men. Whether these gender differences vary with age is uncertain. We tested the associations of gender with mortality, depression symptoms, and HRQoL in MHD patients of different age groups. METHODS: We used data from 1504 adult MHD patients enrolled in the PROHEMO, a prospective cohort in Salvador, Brazil...
July 9, 2023: International Journal of Artificial Organs