title: Overview of regular dialysis treatment in Japan (as of 31 December 2011).
abstract: A nationwide statistical survey of 4255 dialysis facilities was conducted at the end of 2011. Responses were submitted by 4213 facilities (99.0%). The number of new patients started on dialysis was 38,613 in 2011. Although the number of new patients decreased in 2009 and 2010, it increased in 2011. The number of patients who died each year has been increasing; it was 30,743 in 2011, which exceeded 30,000 for the first time. The number of patients undergoing dialysis has also been increasing every year; it was 304,856 at the end of 2011, which exceeded 300,000 for the first time. The number of dialysis patients per million at the end of 2011 was 2385.4. The crude death rate of dialysis patients in 2011 was 10.2%, which exceeded 10% for the first time in the last 20 years. The mean age of new dialysis patients was 67.84 years and the mean age of the entire dialysis patient population was 66.55 years. The most common primary cause of renal failure among new dialysis patients was diabetic nephropathy (44.3%). Diabetic nephropathy was also the most common primary disease among the entire dialysis patient population (36.7%), exceeding chronic glomerulonephritis (34.8%) which had been the highest until last year. The survey included questions related to the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on 11 March 2011. The results on items associated with the Great East Japan Earthquake were reported separately from this report. The mean uric acid levels of the male and female patients were 7.30 and 7.19 mg/dL, respectively. Certain drugs for hyperuricemia were prescribed for approximately 17% of patients. From the results of the facility survey, the number of patients who underwent peritoneal dialysis (PD) was 9642 and the number of patients who did not undergo PD despite having a peritoneal dialysis catheter was 369. A basic summary of the results on the survey items associated with PD is included in this report and the details were reported separately.
authors: Committee of Renal Data Registry, Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy, Tokyo, Japan.
authors: Shigeru
authors: S
authors: Nakai
authors: Yuzo
authors: Y
authors: Watanabe
authors: Ikuto
authors: I
authors: Masakane
authors: Atsushi
authors: A
authors: Wada
authors: Tetsuo
authors: T
authors: Shoji
authors: Takeshi
authors: T
authors: Hasegawa
authors: Hidetomo
authors: H
authors: Nakamoto
authors: Kunihiro
authors: K
authors: Yamagata
authors: Junichiro James
authors: JJ
authors: Kazama
authors: Naohiko
authors: N
authors: Fujii
authors: Noritomo
authors: N
authors: Itami
authors: Toshio
authors: T
authors: Shinoda
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Shigematsu
authors: Seiji
authors: S
authors: Marubayashi
authors: Osamu
authors: O
authors: Morita
authors: Seiji
authors: S
authors: Hashimoto
authors: Kazuyuki
authors: K
authors: Suzuki
authors: Naoki
authors: N
authors: Kimata
authors: Norio
authors: N
authors: Hanafusa
authors: Kenji
authors: K
authors: Wakai
authors: Takayuki
authors: T
authors: Hamano
authors: Satoshi
authors: S
authors: Ogata
authors: Kenji
authors: K
authors: Tsuchida
authors: Masatomo
authors: M
authors: Taniguchi
authors: Hiroshi
authors: H
authors: Nishi
authors: Kunitoshi
authors: K
authors: Iseki
authors: Yoshiharu
authors: Y
authors: Tsubakihara
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D015996:Survival Rate; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Combined use; Dialysis patient population; Peritoneal dialysis; Survival rate; Uric acid