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... one or more comorbidities. Diabetes mellitus and ischaemic heart disease were the most common conditions seen in 32.9% and 22.5% of patients respectively. Current smoking was recorded for 12.4% of incident RRT patients in the 2-year period. The presence of comorbidities in patients <75 years became...

..., 10.3% actively smoke, 39.4% have serum cholesterol concentrations >200 mg/dl, and 19.7% have diabetes mellitus. Blood pressure, age, hyperlipidemia, smoking and diabetes modulate the estimated CAD risk in males and females. Furthermore, a short time period (less than 1 year) since transplantation...

..., 53.8% had one or more comorbidities. Diabetes mellitus and ischaemic heart disease were the most common conditions seen in 30.1% and 22.7% of patients respectively. Current smoking was recorded for 14.5% of incident RRT patients in the 6-year period. Comorbidities became more common with increasing age...

...Udaya Udayaraj; Charles RV Tomson; Julie Gilg; David Ansell; Damian Fogarty Introduction: The prevalence of 13 comorbid conditions and smoking status at the time of starting renal replacement therapy (RRT) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are described. Methods: Adult patients starting RRT...

... = 0.0005), PWV (HR 1.30; 95% CI 1.07–1.60; p = 0.01), AI (HR 1.08; 95% CI 1.04–1.14; p = 0.0001) and pack years of smoking (HR 1.01; 95% CI 1.00–1.03; p = 0.02) as independent risk factors for time to ESRD (–2 log likelihood = 86.7; χ 2 = 30.9; p < 0.0001). Repeat analysis using AI as a categorical...