Fig 1.
Flow chart of the establishment of matched-pairs of dialysis patients receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
Table 1.
Comparison of demographic and clinical characteristics of dialysis patients before and after matching by propensity score.
Fig 2.
Comparison of cumulative congestive heart failure free survival rates between matched pairs of hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients after accounting for competing risk of mortality.
Table 2.
Comparison of incidence rates (per 1,000 patient-years) and subdistribution hazard ratios of congestive heart failure between patients with hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) before and after matching for propensity score.
Fig 3.
Stratified analysis of risk for CHF between matched pairs of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients using multivariable subdistribution hazard models.