title: French patients on daily hemodialysis: clinical characteristics and treatment trajectories.
abstract: Increasing the weekly frequency of hemodialysis sessions has positive effects, on the control of several biological data of patients. However, knowledge about Daily HemoDialysis (DHD) practices is limited in France. The aim of the present study was to describe the characteristics and treatment trajectories of all French patients undergoing DHD.
  
  
  
  All patients older than 18 years who started DHD between 2003 and 2012 in France were included and followed until December 31, 2013. The patients' demographic and clinical characteristics and treatment modalities were extracted from the French Renal Epidemiological and Information Network (REIN) registry.
  
  
  
  During the inclusion period, 753 patients started DHD in France. Based on their median age (64 years), patients were classified in two groups: "old" group (≥64 years) and "young" group (<64 years). Patients in the old group had more comorbidities than in the young group: 48 % had diabetes (vs 29 % in the young group), 17 % an active malignancy (vs 10 %) and 80 % ≥1 cardiovascular disease (vs 41 %). Concerning patients' treatment trajectories, 496 (66 %) patients started with another dialysis before switching to DHD and 257 (34 %) directly with DHD. At the end of the follow-up, 69 % of patients in the old group were dead (27.4 % in the young group) and kidney transplantation was more frequent in the young group (30.4 % vs 0.5 %).
  
  
  
  In France, DHD is proposed not only to young in rather good clinical conditions and waiting for kidney transplantation, but also to old and frail patients with higher mortality.
authors.affiliation: EHESP Rennes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Rennes, France. adelaide.pladys@ehesp.fr.|Université Rennes 1, UMR CNRS 6290, Rennes, France. adelaide.pladys@ehesp.fr.
authors.forename: Adélaïde
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pladys
authors.affiliation: EHESP Rennes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Rennes, France.|EHESP Rennes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA MOS, Rennes, France.
authors.forename: Sahar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bayat
authors.affiliation: Association AURA, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kolko
authors.affiliation: CHU Caen, Service de néphrologie, Caen, France.|Université de Caen Normandie, 1086 INSERM, Caen, France.
authors.forename: Clémence
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Béchade
authors.affiliation: Registre REIN, Agence de la biomédecine, Saint Denis La Plaine, France.
authors.forename: Cécile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Couchoud
authors.affiliation: Université Rennes 1, UMR CNRS 6290, Rennes, France.|CHU Pontchaillou, Service de néphrologie, Rennes, France.
authors.forename: Cécile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vigneau
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011379:Prognosis; D012042:Registries; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000379:methods; D051436:Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Daily hemodialysis; End stage renal disease; Patient profiles; Patients trajectories; REIN registry