AUSTIN, Texas — In this video, Ladan Golestaneh, MD, MS, discusses potentially modifiable risks among patients on dialysis identified in a mentorship program.
As Healio previously reported, the PEER-HD study explores mentorship among patients on dialysis. In the poster presented at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Golestaneh and colleagues found patients who enrolled as peer mentors were younger, more educated, had higher health literacy and better physical function than high-risk patients.
“You [might] look at this poster [and] at this study and think, ‘Well,