Table 1.
Participants’ clinical characteristics.
Table 2.
Comparison of quality-of-life scales between hemodialysis patients and peritoneal dialysis patients.
Table 3.
Linear regression analysis of HRQoL scales in PD and HD patients.
Fig 1.
Kaplan-Meier curves of patient survival (A, hemodialysis; B, peritoneal dialysis) and hospitalization-free survival (C, hemodialysis; D, peritoneal dialysis) among the physical component summary score tertiles.
(A) Survival rate of hemodialysis patients (High tertile: 99.5% at 100 days and 97.6% at 500 days; Middle tertile: 99.8% at 100 days and 95.0% at 500 days; Low tertile: 99.8% at 100 days and 92.3% at 500 days; P = 0.004). (B) Survival rate of peritoneal dialysis patients (High tertile: 100% at 100 days and 97.1% at 500 days; Middle tertile: 100% at 100 days and 95.2% at 500 days; Low tertile: 99.2% at 100 days and 87.2% at 500 days; P = 0.024). (C) Hospitalization-free survival rate of hemodialysis patients (High tertile: 94.5% at 100 days and 77.1% at 500 days; Middle tertile: 93.2% at 100 days and 66.9% at 500 days; Low tertile: 86.0% at 100 days and 54.8% at 500 days; P < 0.001). (D) Hospitalization-free survival rate of peritoneal dialysis patients (High tertile: 93.0% at 100 days and 62.8% at 500 days; Middle tertile: 87.6% at 100 days and 43.9% at 500 days; Low tertile: 75.2% at 100 days and 43.1% at 500 days; P = 0.003).
Fig 2.
Kaplan-Meier curves for patient survival (A, hemodialysis; B, peritoneal dialysis) and hospitalization-free survival (C, hemodialysis; D, peritoneal dialysis) among the mental component summary score tertiles.
(A) Survival rate of hemodialysis patients (High tertile: 99.5% at 100 days and 96.2% at 500 days; Middle tertile: 99.8% at 100 days and 95.2% at 500 days; Low tertile: 99.8% at 100 days and 93.3% at 500 days; P = 0.101). (B) Survival rate of peritoneal dialysis patients (High tertile: 100% at 100 days and 96.3% at 500 days; Middle tertile: 100% at 100 days and 92.3% at 500 days; Low tertile: 99.2% at 100 days and 90.9% at 500 days; P = 0.169). (C) Hospitalization-free survival rate of hemodialysis patients (High tertile: 94.1% at 100 days and 74.5% at 500 days; Middle tertile: 91.5% at 100 days and 64.0% at 500 days; Low tertile: 88.0% at 100 days and 59.5% at 500 days; P < 0.001). (D) Hospitalization-free survival rate of peritoneal dialysis patients (High tertile: 90.0% at 100 days and 59.4% at 500 days; Middle tertile: 88.7% at 100 days and 50.6% at 500 days; Low tertile: 76.9% at 100 days and 38.8% at 500 days; P = 0.003).
Table 4.
Cox regression analyses according to quality-of-life scale scores.
Table 5.
Cox regression analyses according to frailty or disability.