Dialysis Patients with Low Treatment Compliance Have Poorer BMD Control

In an analysis of 509 prevalent adult patients on chronic hemodialysis in Italy, poor control of mineral and bone disorders was discovered in 56% of patients. Low compliance to treatment was the major determinant of failure (in 43.5 % of cases), and there was a direct correlation between a high degree of compliance and the achievement of therapeutic targets. Only a minority of proposed interventions (14.7%) included strategies to improve patient compliance. The findings are published in the Journal of Nephrology.