1. Effect of Nocturnal Hemodialysis versus Conventional Hemodialysis on End-Stage Renal Disease: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.
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Fangjie Liu, Yiting Sun, Tianhua Xu, Li Sun, Linlin Liu, Wei Sun, Xin Feng, Jianfei Ma, Lining Wang, and Li Yao
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of nocturnal hemodialysis on end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients.We searched Medline, EmBase, and the Cochrance Central Register of Controlled Trials for studies up to January 2016. Analysis was done to compare variant outcomes of different hemodialysis schedules, including mortality, cardiovascular-associated variables, uremia-associated variables, quality of life (QOL), side-effects, and drug usage.We collected and analyzed the results of 28 studies involving 22,508 patients in our meta-analysis. The mortality results in this meta-analysis indicated that the nocturnal hemodialysis (NHD) group was not significantly different from conventional hemodialysis (CHD) group (Mortality: OR: 0.75; 95% confidence intervals (CIs): 0.52 to 1.10; p = 0.145), but the CHD group had significantly fewer number of hospitalizations than the NHD group (OR: 1.54; 95%CI: 1.32 to 1.79; p
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- 2017
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