Sun-191 Fasting the Holy Month of Ramadan Among Diabetic Patients On hemodialysis: An Observational Multicenter Study in Egypt

Abstract

Conclusions:Our study has the potential for residual confounding from the limited collection of co-morbidity and non-evaluation of severity, and lack of socioeconomic, medication and biochemical data in analyses. Our study indicates that survival outcomes on dialysis are improving with time. This includes survival for patients with medical comorbidity. Compared to previously, the survival of such patients is not meaningfully different on PD versus HD at the current time. This is probably as a result of improved pre-dialysis care, patient selection (eg dialysis versus conservative care in the elderly) but could due to improvements in general care of patient co-morbidities and improvements in dialysis technology and practice.