The United States Renal Data System tracks dialysis mortality rates and issues the USRDS Annual Report there you'll find Section 6 Morbidity & Mortality (PDF link) this is where you'll find the relevant averages for your age and gender.
Remember when looking at statistics that averages are made of extremes. If five patients live two years and one patient lives twenty years, the average life span would be five years. This is called a bimodal distribution and really the average has little meaning to either group.
If you've just heard about dialysis go ahead and look at the statistics, but know there is a lot you can do to stay right of average. For the rest of the story checkout these nonprofit, independent, educational websites: Kidney School, Nocturnal Home Haemodialysis and Home Dialysis Central. You'll learn that with the proper dose, dialysis works well and you can live a life very similar to the one you were meant to live but for severe chronic kidney disease. This 12 part series of educational videos from IKAN Kidney does an excellant job addressing the most common questions people have when they learn they have kidney disease (follow link and press "Play All" at the top of the page to watch them in order, ~43 minutes).
More frequent and/or longer dialysis has a significant positive impact on mortality. Dialyzing every night, over night, as I do, improves your expected mortality to the point that it rivals having a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. Keep in mind too that these numbers are based on historic results; because of constant improvements in drugs and treatment, no one knows how long someone starting dialysis today can expect to live. No one knows how long you, a unique individual, will live.
kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com
Remember when looking at statistics that averages are made of extremes. If five patients live two years and one patient lives twenty years, the average life span would be five years. This is called a bimodal distribution and really the average has little meaning to either group.
If you've just heard about dialysis go ahead and look at the statistics, but know there is a lot you can do to stay right of average. For the rest of the story checkout these nonprofit, independent, educational websites: Kidney School, Nocturnal Home Haemodialysis and Home Dialysis Central. You'll learn that with the proper dose, dialysis works well and you can live a life very similar to the one you were meant to live but for severe chronic kidney disease. This 12 part series of educational videos from IKAN Kidney does an excellant job addressing the most common questions people have when they learn they have kidney disease (follow link and press "Play All" at the top of the page to watch them in order, ~43 minutes).
More frequent and/or longer dialysis has a significant positive impact on mortality. Dialyzing every night, over night, as I do, improves your expected mortality to the point that it rivals having a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. Keep in mind too that these numbers are based on historic results; because of constant improvements in drugs and treatment, no one knows how long someone starting dialysis today can expect to live. No one knows how long you, a unique individual, will live.
kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com
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