Características clínicas y analíticas de los pacientes con insuficiencia renal crónica en tratamiento con hemodiálisis en España. Proyecto ENOD (Estudio Nacional de Optimización de Diálisis)

Chronic kidney disease represents an important burden for public health systems. More than 40,000 patients suffer from chronic kidney disease in Spain, with enormous pharmacologic and health service costs. The loss of renal function requires replacement therapy, among which hemodialysis is the most frequently used while patients wait for a renal transplant.Nevertheless, patient survival in hemodialysis is markedly lower than