Heart rate variability during hemodialysis is an indicator for long-term vascular access survival in uremic patients

• Ya-Ting Huang,

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical medical sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan (R.O.C.), Department of Nursing, Saint Mary’s hospital Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

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• Yu-Ming Chang,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Mary’s hospital Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

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• I-Ling Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Saint Mary’s hospital Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

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• Chuan-Lan Yang,

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Saint Mary’s hospital Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

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• Show-Chin Leu,

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Saint Mary’s hospital Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

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• Hung-Li Su,

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Saint Mary’s hospital Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

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• Jsun-Liang Kao,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Mary’s hospital Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

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• Shih-Ching Tsai,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Mary’s hospital Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

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• Rong-Na Jhen,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Mary’s hospital Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

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• Woung-Ru Tang,

  Affiliation Graduate Institute of Nursing, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

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• Chih-Chung Shiao ,

  * E-mail: chungyy2001@yahoo.com.tw

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Mary’s hospital Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C.), Saint Mary’s Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Yilan, Taiwan (R.O.C)

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-7574

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• On behalf of SMHRG (Saint Mary’s Hospital Research Group on Geriatrics)

  ¶Membership of the SMHRG is provided in the Acknowledgments

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