Dialysis dose and gender: A different hypothesis

Gender and the hygiene hypothesis.

The hygiene hypothesis offers an explanation for the correlation, well-established in the industrialized nations of North and West, between increased hygiene and sanitation, and increased rates of asthma and allergies. Recent studies have added to the scope of the hypothesis, showing a link between decreased exposure to certain bacteria and parasitic worms, and increased rates of depression and...

The gender similarities hypothesis.

The differences model, which argues that males and females are vastly different psychologically, dominates the popular media. Here, the author advances a very different view, the gender similarities hypothesis, which holds that males and females are similar on most, but not all, psychological variables. Results from a review of 46 meta-analyses support the gender similarities hypothesis. Gender...

Analysis of the Dialysis Dose in Different Clinical Situations: A Simulation-Based Approach

Renal replacement II: dialysis dose.

Improved survival of critically ill acute renal failure patients can be correlated with therapy dose. The overall solute elimination can be measured by the product of clearance and time (Kt), which is usually normalized for the volume of distribution (V) of the solute as "Kt/V." Setting a Kt/V threshold of 1.4 can guide clinicians toward adequate treatment. This is a slightly higher prescriptio...

Factors influencing dialysis outcome: the dialysis dose in perspective.

planted may be better than that of patients who remain Introduction on dialysis. In a centre or country in which there is a vigorous transplantation programme, ‘dialysis alone’ The nature of renal replacement therapy (RRT), the survival is not strictly comparable with that obtained term applied to dialysis and transplantation, has if there is little or no transplantation. changed dramatically i...