Context Cardiovascular mortality is considered the main cause of death in patients receiving
dialysis and is 10 to 20 times higher in such patients than in the general population.
Objective To evaluate if high overall mortality in patients starting dialysis is a consequence
of increased cardiovascular mortality risk only or whether noncardiovascular mortality is
equally increased. Design, Setting, and Patients Using data from between January 1, 1994,
and January 1, 2007, age-stratified mortality in a European cohort of adults starting dialysis …