Current characteristics of dialysis therapy in Korea: 2015 registry data focusing on elderly patients

• Main Authors: Dong-Chan Jin (Author), Sung-Ro Yun (Author), Seoung Woo Lee (Author), Sang-Woong Han (Author), Won Kim (Author), Jongha Park (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Korean Society of Nephrology, 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Because of increases in the elderly population and diabetic patients, the proportion of elderly among dialysis patients has rapidly increased during the last decades. The mortality and morbidity of these elderly dialysis patients are obviously much higher than those of young patients, but large anal...