The increase in renal replacement therapy (RRT) incidence has come to an end in Sweden-analysis of variations by region over the period 1991-2010.

For patients >75 years, there was an increasing trend for male patients in both 2001–2005 and 2006–2010 and likewise for female.

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Recorded clinical characteristics of the patients, divided by five age groups, are given in Table 1 . Incidence trend overall and by calendar year When normalizing the RRT incidence to that of 1991, we observed that the total normalized incidence RRT reached its peak in the calendar year of 2000 ( Figure 1 ), while there was a decreasing trend thereafter.

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