... the curfew measures were in effect. We used an electronic form composed of 3 sections to collect data. In the first section, we collected data on the demographics and clinical and laboratory parameters of the patients. The second and third sections consisted of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS...

...Luigi Cirillo; Roberta Cutruzzulà; Chiara Somma; Marco Gregori; Giuseppe Cestone; Chiara Pizzarelli; Alessandro Toccafondi; Francesco Pizzarelli; Pietro Claudio Dattolo Background: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder in long-term dialysis patients and a risk factor for morbidity...

...Lili Chan; Sri Lekha Tummalapalli; Rocco Ferrandino; Priti Poojary; Aparna Saha; Kinsuk Chauhan; Girish N. Nadkarni Background/Aims: Depression is common in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis (HD). Although, depression is associated with mortality, the effect of depression...

... the levels of depression, quality of life and sleep quality in hemodialysis patients with or without cancer, and to analyze the associations with the malnutrition-inflammation score (MIS). Patients and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 40 cancer patients under hemodialysis and 44 patients under...

...Yu-Sen Peng; Chih-Kang Chiang; Kung-Yu Hung; Chung-Hsin Chang; Chien-Yu Lin; Chwei-Shiun Yang; Tzen-Wen Chen; Ching-Chih Hsia; Da-Lung Chen; Wen-Ding Hsu; Chao-Fu Chang; Kwan-Dun Wu; Ru-Ping Lin; Tun-Jun Tsai; Wang-Yu Chen Background: Psychological depression and physical disability are closely...

...Fredric O. Finkelstein; Diane Wuerth; Susan H. Finkelstein Depressive symptoms and clinical depression are commonly noted in patients with end-stage renal disease and chronic kidney disease (not on dialysis). This association is important since depressive symptoms have been associated with both...

... through the SF-36 Vitality subscale and were administered the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS), and the Mini-Mental State Examination. In all, the number/severity of comorbidities was assessed through the Charlson Comorbidity Index and laboratory parameters were...

...Caterina Canavese; Ester DeCostanzi; Daniela Bergamo; Enrico Sabbioni; Piero Stratta Background: Depression may induce malnutrition, but, as a paradoxical hypothesis, malnutrition may induce depression. This relationship, of course, depends on how we define malnutrition. Current Knowledge: Rubidium...