Mark Unruh

TL;DR: The burden of symptoms, prevalence of depression, and low quality of life are comparable in patients with ESRD and advanced CKD.

TL;DR: Fatigue is an important and often underrecognized symptom in the dialysis population and possible interventions for minimizing fatigue in patients on long-term dialysis therapy should aim at improving health care provider awareness, developing improved methods of measurement, understanding the pathogenesis better, and managing known contributing factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Dialysis Symptom Index, a 30-item measure of symptoms and their severity, was administered to patients during a routine hemodialysis session.

TL;DR: A meta‐analysis of studies published between 1983 and 2005 to estimate relapse rates, rates of nonadherence to the medical regimen, and the association of potential risk factors with these rates found that demographics and most pretransplantation characteristics showed little correlation with relapse.

TL;DR: To examine the extent to which subjective and objective sleep quality are related to age independent of chronic health conditions, a large number of patients with a history of sleep-related illnesses are surveyed.