1. Hemodialysis patients represent a tiny subset of all patients with heart disease.
Hemodialysis patients represent a tiny subset of all patients with heart disease. Overlap between heart disease and hemodialysis (HD). In the United States, there are about 27 million patients with cardiac disease and about 400,000 HD patients. Only ∼2% of the patients with heart disease are on HD, whereas ∼80% of HD patients have cardiac disease. Most of the cardiovascular therapies used in HD patients are extrapolated from RCTs that specifically excluded patients with kidney disease.
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