Dialysis Adequacy and Quality of Life in Diabetic and Non-diabetic Bangladeshi Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis

Background: Quality of life (QOL) is one of the chief areas to be addressed when caring for people with end stage renal disease (ESRD). The continual excretory function of native kidneys are replaced in such patients by few hours of rapid urea clearance in a week. This study aimed to explore whether more weekly hemodialysis sessions and dialysis adequacy do actually improve parameters of QOL and if this is beneficial enough at the cost of taking additional dialysis sessions in a low income country like Bangladesh. Whether being diabetic influences QOL was also investigated