TABLE 4

FROM:

Nonadherence in hemodialysis: Associations with mortality, hospitalization, and practice patterns in the DOPPS

Rajiv Saran, Jennifer L Bragg-Gresham, Hugh C Rayner, David A Goodkin, Marcia L Keen, Paul C Van Dijk, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Luis Piera, Akira Saito, Shunichi Fukuhara, Eric W Young, Philip J Held and Friedrich K Port

Table 4. Associations of nonadherence^a

	Odds ratios (OR) by nonadherence measure
Characteristic	Skip	Shorten	IDWG	PO4	K
Skipped 1 hemodialysis session/month	—	4.36b	1.40b	1.37b	1.14
Shortened session by 10 minutes	4.91b	—	1.56b	1.59b	1.16
idwg > 5.7% of dry weight	1.33	1.53b	—	1.36b	2.31b
PO4> 7.5 mg/dL	1.36b	1.51b	1.35b	—	2.14b
k > 6 mEq/L	1.21	1.11	2.30b	2.12b	—

 IDWG is interdialytic weight gain.

^a Adjusted for continent of residence and all factors listed here and in Table 3. This table does not represent a correlation matrix but instead presents the results from five different logistic regression models.

^b  P < 0.05