Population
153 chronic maintenance hemodialysis patients, mean age 50 ± 15 years, 58% men.
Design
Case-control
Follow-up
23 ± 14 months
Authors
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May flag higher SCD risk in hemodialysis; hypothesis-generating, requires prospective validation before practice change.
Diabetes and left ventricular hypertrophy are independent predictors of sudden cardiac death in patients on maintenance hemodialysis.
Barberato et al. (2016) studied this question.
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