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Older ESRD patients experience rapid declines in executive function after initiating hemodialysis. We found that older hemodialysis patients are at substantial risk of diagnosis with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, and these disorders increase mortality risk 2-fold.

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This page is a summary of: Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Mortality after Hemodialysis Initiation, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, August 2018, American Society of Nephrology,
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.10150917.
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