1. Early Systolic Blood Pressure Changes in Incident Hemodialysis Patients Are Associated with Mortality in the First Year
Kidney Blood Press Res 2012;35:663– DOI: /
Fig. 1. Study flow diagram. PD = Peritoneal dialysis.
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2. Early Systolic Blood Pressure Changes in Incident Hemodialysis Patients Are Associated with Mortality in the First Year
Kidney Blood Press Res 2012;35:663– DOI: /
Fig. 2. Distribution of baseline pre-HD SBP (average of weeks 1–3).
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3. Early Systolic Blood Pressure Changes in Incident Hemodialysis Patients Are Associated with Mortality in the First Year
Kidney Blood Press Res 2012;35:663– DOI: /
Fig. 3. SBP and pre-HD weight in the first year on HD (with 95% CI).
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4. Early Systolic Blood Pressure Changes in Incident Hemodialysis Patients Are Associated with Mortality in the First Year
Kidney Blood Press Res 2012;35:663– DOI: /
Fig. 4. One-year SBP course in the 5 SBP groups (mean and 95% CI).
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5. Early Systolic Blood Pressure Changes in Incident Hemodialysis Patients Are Associated with Mortality in the First Year
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Fig. 5. Distribution of SBP slopes (in mm Hg/week) in the first 12 weeks on HD.
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6. Early Systolic Blood Pressure Changes in Incident Hemodialysis Patients Are Associated with Mortality in the First Year
Kidney Blood Press Res 2012;35:663– DOI: /
Fig. 6.a Kaplan-Meier curves of 1-year survival stratified by baseline SBP. log-rank test showed significant differences between category 1 (SBP <120 mm Hg) and category 2 (SBP 120–139.9 mm Hg; p < 0.001), category 1 and category 3 (SBP 140–159.9 mm Hg; p < 0.001), category 1 and category 4 (160–179.9 mm Hg; p < 0.001), and between category 1 and category 5 (SBP ≥180 mm Hg; p = 0.009). b Kaplan-Meier analysis of survival between patients stratified by quartiles of SBP slope. log-rank test showed significant differences between the first and fourth quartile (p = 0.01) as well as between the third and fourth quartile (p = 0.046).
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