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| General PD benefits | Specific PD benefits in diabetics | PD risks in diabetics |
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| (1) Home-based continuous therapy | (1) Sustained daily ultrafiltration | (1) Fluid overload |
| (2) Advantages in lifestyle | (2) Better preservation of residual renal function | (2) Aggravated dysregulated metabolic response to glucose |
| (3) Avoids vascular access related infections | (3) Vascular capital preservation | (3) Hyperinsulinemia |
| (4) Avoids recurrent circulatory stress | (4) Avoids peripheral and coronary steal syndromes | (4) Central obesity |
| (5) Avoids myocardial stunning | (5) Fewer episodes of hypotension | (5) Dyslipidemia |
| (6) Fewer episodes of blood-borne disease | (6) Better blood pressure control | (6) Peritoneal albumin losses |
| (7) More liberal diet (in spite of fluid and Na restriction) | (7) No need for systemic anticoagulation | (7) Peritoneal infection |
| (8) Control of anemia with lower doses of erythropoietin | (8) Fewer episodes of progressive retinopathy | (8) Membrane fast transport status |
| (9) Lack of pain from needle puncture | (9) Feasibility of elective intraperitoneal insulin | |
| (10) Lower rate of delayed renal graft function | | |
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