Incidence of atherosclerotic arterial occlusive accidents in predialysis and dialysis patients: a multicentric study in the Ile de France district.

Background.An abnormally high mortality from atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) accidents has long been reported in patients on maintenance haemodialysis (HD). However, incidence of atherosclerotic CV accidents had not been so far assessed in predialysis patients. In order to evaluate the respective influence of uraemia and the dialysis procedure, we compared incidence of atherosclerotic accidents before and after initiation of HD in a large population of patients. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]