3 times dialysis a week not sufficient for diabetics and kidney patients

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A major study challenges the way diabetics and others with failing kidneys have been treated for half a century, finding that three-times-a-week dialysis to cleanse the blood of toxins may not be enough.

Deaths, heart attacks and hospitalizations were much higher on the day after the two-day interval between treatments each week than at other times, the federally funded study found.

The president of the National Kidney Foundation said she was “very troubled” by the results published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.

“We could be doing a better job for our dialysis patients” and that might mean doing it more often, said Dr. Lynda Szczech, a Duke University kidney specialist who had no role in the study.

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