Comparison of patient survival in non-diabetic transplant-listed patients initially treated with haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.

Background: It is still not known whether patients survive longer on one modality of dialysis compared to the other. We have tried to answer this question using data from the Scottish Renal Registry.

Methods: To avoid the confounding effects of co-morbidity, we limited our survival analysis to those patients listed for a renal transplant and excluded patients with a primary renal diagnosis (PRD) of diabetic nephropathy.