SURVIVAL RATES AND CAUSES OF DEATH IN VIETNAMESE CHRONIC HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS

Abstract

There has not been a published study on the survival rate and causes of death of chronic hemodialysis (CHD) in Vietnam. We retrospectively collected data of CHD patients in Thong Nhat hospital, Ho Chi Minh City to investigate survival rate and identify causes of death. In this study, 349 adult chronic hemodialysis patients in Thong Nhat Hospital, Ho Chi Minh city were included during the period 4/199712/2014. We use the methods of retrospective, observational study and SPSS 22.0 was used for analysis. Also, Kaplan-Meier method was used. Log rank tests were used to explore the relationship with categorical independent variables. To further investigate mortality, Cox proportional hazards modelling was used, with time to death or last follow-up as dependent variable, and a range of categorical and continuous variables included in the model.