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Your own link says Survival rates for ESRD are higher in Europe than the U.S. This could be explained by the inferiority of national standards of care, a highe
by hermanzegerman 10mo ago
Your own link says
Survival rates for ESRD are higher in Europe than the U.S. This could be explained by the inferiority of national standards of care, a higher prevalence of patients with diabetes and differences in practice patterns.
Let's look at actual journals
For those with ESKD onset from 2004 to 2008, unadjusted 5-year survival of all patients with ESKD (treated with dialysis or transplantation) was 41% in the USA, 48% in Europe, and 60% in Japan, despite patients being 2–3 years older on average in Europe and Japan than in the USA, and Japan having very few transplant patients.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30448-2/abstract https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
The US had a much higher KRT incidence, prevalence, and mortality compared to Europe, and despite a higher kidney transplantation rate, a lower proportion of prevalent patients with a functioning graft.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38439701/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38439701/
- john-h-k 10mo agoThis does seem like a direct contradiction to me, but it’s also 2 decades old
- hermanzegerman 10mo agoThe second paper has data from 2021, I've included the first one because it's from a top journal
- john-h-k 10mo agoThen yeah, this supercedes my point, seems I am wrong