Yamaguchi, Satoshi
Hamano, Takayuki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2100-9106
Oka, Tatsufumi
Doi, Yohei
Kajimoto, Sachio
Shimada, Karin
Matsumoto, Ayumi
Sakaguchi, Yusuke
Matsui, Isao
Suzuki, Akira
Isaka, Yoshitaka
Funding for this research was provided by:
Osaka Heart Club
Article History
Received: 30 January 2021
Accepted: 21 June 2021
First Online: 2 July 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: We enrolled patients with CKD stage 5 who started hemodialysis from January 2008 to December 2016 at Osaka University Hospital or from January 2007 to July 2018 at the Japan Community Health care Organization (JCHO) Osaka Hospital. We excluded patients aged < 20 years and those who started dialysis at the intensive care unit of Osaka University Hospital. This study was approved by the Osaka University Hospital Ethics Committee (No. 18026) and was performed according to the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration.