Abstract:Background and Aim: The number of patients on hemodialysis (HD) increases continuously. The HD population is usually divided into early and late HD patients according to the duration of HD, that are known as incident and prevalent groups. Still, there is a debate about the exact definition of both the incident and prevalent groups. Furthermore, predictors of death of both of these groups are not yet identified, especially in Egyptian HD patients. We aimed to compare between the incident and prevalent HD patien… Show more
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