“…The superiority of AVF and AVG over CVC in terms of survival, hospitalizations, and other outcomes has been well established over the last decades; however, still 80.3% of all patients commenced hemodialysis with a CVC in 2014 . Change of access from CVC to either AVF or AVG have been reported to associate with a favorable change in markers of nutrition, inflammation, anemia, hospitalization, and mortality, but still 68.3% of hemodialysis patients were using a CVC as their primary access . Data also suggested that not only the conversion per se from CVC to either AVF or AVG matters but also timing of conversion plays a role, a finding that also held true in a large international, elderly population …”