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Frequent hemodialysis at night may improve some outcomes for patients with end-stage kidney disease

Patients who received hemodialysis at night six times a week for treatment of end-stage kidney disease had improvements on certain outcomes, including reduced need for blood pressure medications and improvement in selected quality of life measures, compared to patients who received conventional hemodialysis three times weekly, according to an article in the Sept. 19 issue of JAMA.

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