Participants
We identified 78 children and adolescents with ESRD onchronic hemodialysis (41 initiated in period A and 37 inperiod B) (Table 1).
The median age was 14.7 years (range,0.7–20.5 years) and median weight was 46 kg (range, 12.5–
95 kg). Most (62 %) patients were boys. ESRD was predominantly due to uropathy (32 %).
There were no significant differences between group A and B.