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A significant proportion of patients with kidney disease on maintenance dialysis in the United States regret their decision to initiate such treatment, survey results indicate. Of 395 surveyed patients receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis at seven centers in Cleveland, 21% indicated they had some regret, say Fahad Saeed, M.D., University of Rochester Medical Center, New York and colleagues in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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