The survival time in patients not receiving a renal transplant was almost 12 months less in diabetic patients
compared to other dialysis patients.
Using a univariate analysis, diabetes predicted a roughly 50% increase in the risk of death,
which remained unchanged after adjustments for age, coronary artery disease, and either
physical or mental aspects of HRQOL. As mortality rate was highest the first 120 days after
hemodialysis in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Pattern Study [30], we assessed mortality in patients not only after inclusion in our study, more than two months after initiation of dialysis, but also after two months observation period,
i.e. at least four months after dialysis initiation