title: Cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients: where is the link?
abstract: Over the past decade, the research agenda in dialysis has been dominated by studies on risk factors associated with cardiovascular mortality. It has now become increasingly clear that in dialysis patients, non-cardiovascular causes of death are increased to the same extent as cardiovascular mortality, and therefore research efforts in this area deserve an equally prominent place on the nephrology research agenda. As previous research has suggested an association between cardiovascular disease and infections, more research on potential links between the causal pathways of cardiovascular events and infections is also warranted.
authors.affiliation: ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Kitty J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Jager
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Bengt
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lindholm
authors.affiliation: Renal Unit, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Hospital, King's Health Partners , London, UK.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Goldsmith
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine IV, Saarland University Medical Centre , Homburg/Saar, Germany.
authors.forename: Danilo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fliser
authors.affiliation: Division of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Medical University of Silesia , Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wiecek
authors.affiliation: Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Akdeniz University Medical School , Antalya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gultekin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Suleymanlar
authors.affiliation: IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Fundación Renal Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo , Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ortiz
authors.affiliation: INSERM ERI-12 (EA 4292) , Amiens, France ; Amiens University Hospital and the Jules Verne University of Picardie , Amiens, France.
authors.forename: Ziad
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Massy
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat , Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martinez-Castelao
authors.affiliation: Indiana University and VAMC , Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, University Medical Center , Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Blankestijn
authors.affiliation: C.I. Parhon University Hospital and Gr. T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy , Iasi, Romania.
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Covic
authors.affiliation: INSERM U970, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou , Paris, France.
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: London
authors.affiliation: Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit and CNR-IBIM Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension , Reggio Calabria, Italy.
authors.forename: Carmine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zoccali
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center , Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Friedo W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Dekker
keywords: cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular mortality; dialysis; mortality; non-cardiovascular mortality; renal replacement therapy