In the year preceding dialysis initiation, older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease experienced worse mental and physical health-related quality of life compared with the year after dialysis.
“Very few studies have investigated the change in quality of life before and after dialysis. We are first to do so in a large international cohort of older patients,” Esther N.M. de Rooij, MD, from the department of nephrology at Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands, said in the press release. “We hope these results can inform older patients with kidney failure