Risk factors for non-fatal myocardial infarction and cardiac death in incident dialysis patients

Abstract

Incident dialysis subjects with prior coronary disease have a risk of non-fatal MI greater by 57% and cardiac death by 16% as compared to subjects without prior coronary disease. In both populations, the competing risk of cardiac death is several-fold greater than that of non-fatal MI. There are several factors suggesting reverse epidemiology phenomena with respect to major cardiac events in the dialysis population.