title: An overview of regular dialysis treatment in Japan (as of 31 December 2010).
abstract: A nationwide statistical survey of 4226 dialysis facilities was conducted at the end of 2010, and 4166 facilities (98.6%) responded. The number of new patients introduced into dialysis was 37,512 in 2010. This number has decreased for two consecutive years since it peaked in 2008. The number of patients who died in 2010 was 28,882, which has been increasing every year. The number of patients undergoing dialysis at the end of 2010 was 298,252, which is an increase of 7591 (2.6%) compared with that at the end of 2009. The number of dialysis patients per million at the end of 2010 was 2329.1. The crude death rate of dialysis patients in 2010 was 9.8%, and has been gradually increasing. The mean age of the new patients introduced into dialysis was 67.8 years and the mean age of the entire dialysis patient population was 66.2 years. Regarding the primary disease of the new patients introduced into dialysis, the percentage of patients with diabetic nephropathy was 43.6%, which is a slight decrease from that in the previous year (44.5%). Patients with diabetic nephropathy as the primary disease accounted for 35.9% of the entire dialysis patient population, which approaches the percentage of patients with chronic glomerulonephritis as the primary disease (36.2%). The percentage of patients who had undergone carpal tunnel release surgery (CTx) was 4.3%, which is a slight decrease from that at the end of 1999 (5.5%). The decrease in the percentage of patients who had undergone CTx was significant among the patients with dialysis durations of 20-24 years (1999, 48.0%; 2010, 23.2%). A total weekly Kt/V attributable to peritoneal dialysis and their residual functional kidney was 1.7 or higher for 59.4% of patients who underwent peritoneal dialysis.
authors.affiliation: Committee of Renal Data Registry, Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Shigeru
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authors.lastname: Nakai
authors.forename: Kunitoshi
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authors.lastname: Iseki
authors.forename: Noritomo
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authors.lastname: Itami
authors.forename: Satoshi
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authors.lastname: Ogata
authors.forename: Junichiro James
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authors.lastname: Kazama
authors.forename: Naoki
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authors.lastname: Kimata
authors.forename: Takashi
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authors.lastname: Shigematsu
authors.forename: Toshio
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authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Masatomo
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authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsuchida
authors.forename: Hidetomo
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authors.lastname: Nakamoto
authors.forename: Hiroshi
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authors.lastname: Nishi
authors.forename: Seiji
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authors.lastname: Hashimoto
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authors.lastname: Hasegawa
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authors.lastname: Hanafusa
authors.forename: Takayuki
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authors.lastname: Hamano
authors.forename: Naohiko
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authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Ikuto
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Masakane
authors.forename: Seiji
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authors.lastname: Marubayashi
authors.forename: Osamu
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authors.lastname: Morita
authors.forename: Kunihiro
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authors.lastname: Yamagata
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wakai
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wada
authors.forename: Yuzo
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authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Yoshiharu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsubakihara
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002349:Carpal Tunnel Syndrome / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult