Nephrology
Predialysis hyponatremia and mortality in elderly patients beginning to undergo hemodialysis
Seon Ha Baek, Sejoong Kim, Ki Young Na, Suhnggwon Kim, Ho Jun Chin
Korean J Intern Med. 2018;33(5):970-979. Published online October 19, 2017
Background/Aims: Predialysis hyponatremia has been recently reported to be associated with mortality in incident hemodialysis patients. However, whether hyponatremia is associated with unfavorable outcomes in elderly patients remains unknown. We hypothesized that nephrology referral inf luences hypo..
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