Hemodialysis Patient Mortality and Survival Group Comparisons

A comparison of demographics, biochemistry, body composition, and gait speed between mortality and survival groups for individuals undergoing hemodialysis. The dataset, created by Joyce Noelly Vitor Santos and last updated in March 2026, is a 9.5 KB Excel file containing statistical summaries presented as means and medians. It includes data on 120 eligible patients and features such as urea clearance, parathormone, C-reactive protein, and appendicular lean mass.

Use Cases

• Identify significant risk factors for mortality based on biochemical markers like urea clearance and C-reactive protein.
• Assess the prognostic value of gait speed and body composition metrics such as appendicular lean mass.
• Validate optimal cutoff points for clinical variables like gait speed (<1.13 m/s) for targeted clinical decisions.

Strengths

• Data is structured for direct statistical comparison between mortality and survival groups.
• Includes a specific sample size of 120 eligible patients.
• Key clinical variables like gait speed and body composition are explicitly defined.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 9.5 KB, indicating limited scope and likely summary statistics only.

Provenance

Source

Joyce Noelly Vitor Santos via figshare

Collection Method

Likely collected from a clinical study of individuals undergoing hemodialysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 17:28:53; freshness should be verified.