Stats Increase for Seniors and Women with Kidney Failure

A Canadian study recently revealed that one in four patients starting treatment for end-state renal disease in 2003 was at least 75 years-old. In 1994, those numbers were down to one in seven patients.

The data comes from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), which also reported that while the total number of kidney failure patients on dialysis increased by 74 percent in the same decade, the increase in the number of older seniors more than tripled.

Although there are more men than women receiving dialysis for kidney failure right now in Canada,  the growth in new female patients ages 75 and older receiving
dialysis surpassed that for males during the decade of study, the report showed (Canada Institute for Health Information).