On a subset of propensity-score matched patients, well balanced for sex, age, dialysis vintage, diabetes, albumin, hemoglobin, Calcium, Phospahte, PTH and therapies (Table 4), PTX was confirmed to be a protective factor for overall survival (HR: 0.404 [0.254–0.643]; p = 0.00132). Here, PTH is linked to diabetes mellitus.