Fig. 3
From: First-year mortality in incident dialysis patients: results of the Peridialysis study
Kaplan Meier curves showing relationship between first year all-cause mortality and cause of initial modality choice among 1580 patients starting dialysis. At one year, mortality was highest (> 50%) among patients with Physical PD contraindication (n = 71) and patients with Other contraindications (n = 142); intermediary high (20–30%) for the categories PD not offered (n = 106), Mental PD contraindication (n = 80) and HD not possible (n = 46); and, lowest (15–20%) for patients with “free choice” of PD (n = 654) or HD (n = 368) and patients with Abdominal PD contraindication (n = 113)