The risks were alike. Although the prognoses of diabetic patients on dialysis have greatly improved during the
last few decades [3], their risk of death is still higher than in non-diabetic dialysis patients, largely due to cardiovascular complications.
In a study of 268 dialysis patients observed for 293 patient-years, the diabetic patients had the highest comorbidity scores [31], and when diabetic patients were compared to other patients with the same comorbidity score, diabetes did not influence
mortality [31].