An association between time-varying serum albumin level and the mortality rate in maintenance haemodialysis patients: a five-year clinical cohort study

Until now, no long-term studies relating serum albumin level to mortality rate in prevalent haemodialysis (HD) patients have been conducted. We aimed to examine the association between serum albumin level and mortality over a 5-year period.This study included 781 patients who received maintenance HD in a large, hospital-facilitated HD centre. Five-year medical records (2009-2013) were retrospectively reviewed, and the cut-off level for serum...