... disease (CKD). This analysis considers the association between the Karnofsky performance score (KPS) and all-cause mortality in a CKD stage 3-5 cohort. Methods: Patients were selected from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Standards Implementation Study (CRISIS), a prospective observational study of outcome...

...) was a significant predictor of survival. Conclusion: Hand grip strength, standing heel rise and functional reach at the start of RRT seem to affect survival. A 50% reduction in hand grip strength left was associated with an almost 3-fold increase in mortality. Deterioration of function in small distal muscles...

... or increased duration of HD sessions) and the final outcome was all-cause death or mortality. Results: Thirteen studies with a total of 85,722 participants (10,285 PHD patients, 75,437 CHD patients) met the inclusion criteria. Summary estimates indicated that PHD was associated with decreased risk of mortality...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Arteriosclerosis Cardiovascular disease Depression Hemodialysis Inflammation Malnutrition Mortality Despite progress in patient care and dialysis technology, the cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in end-stage renal...

...Tetsuya Fujikawa; Yumiko Ikeda; Shunichi Fukuhara; Takashi Akiba; Tadao Akizawa; Kiyoshi Kurokawa; Akira Saito Background/Aims: Resistance to erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) is associated with mortality in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Time-dependent variability of ESA resistance has been...

...-cause mortality. Results: There was an increase in PMI occurrence by strata of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), whereby PMI was present in only 20.6% of individuals with eGFR ≥90 ml/min/1.73 m 2 , but was found in 50.0% of individuals with eGFR <30 ml/min/1.73m 2 (p = 0.004 for trend...

...Wang Jialin; Zhou Yi; Yuan Weijie Background: Previous studies have reported that reduced mortality rates in hemodialysis (HD) patients were negatively related to body mass index (BMI). The potentially protective effect of increased BMI in HD patients has been referred to as ‘reverse epidemiology...

... to the UKRR with comorbidity data (n ¼ 17,184) were included. The relationship between comorbidities and mortality at 90 days and one year after 90 days from start of RRT were explored using Cox regression. Results: Completeness of comorbidity data was 49.1% in 2010 compared with 48.9% in 2005. Of patients...

...Yu Pan; Xu Dong Xu; Li Li Guo; Ling Ling Cai; Hui Min Jin Background/Aims: The association of the timing of dialysis initiation with mortality is controversial. We conducted a meta-analysis to determine the relationship between the risk of death and early initiation of dialysis, when the patient...

...Masaaki Inaba; Yasuaki Hayashino; Tetsuo Shoji; Takashi Akiba; Tadao Akizawa; Akira Saito; Kiyoshi Kurokawa; Shunichi Fukuhara We previously demonstrated that anemia was not associated with mortality in hemodialysis patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Since diabetes mellitus (DM...

...John Hayes; Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh; Jun L. Lu; Sharon Turban; John E. Anderson; Csaba P. Kovesdy Background/Aims: Abnormal serum potassium is associated with higher mortality in dialysis patients, but its impact on outcomes in predialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) is less clear. Furthermore...

... morbidity and mortality. The challenge is to identify patients who will be in need of long-term renal replacement therapy (RRT) after LTPL. We analyzed 208 liver transplant recipients with respect to mortality, associated laboratory values, underlying liver disease, immunosuppressive protocol and the need...

... was observed in those subjects with diabetes, a higher brain natriuretic peptide level, lower cholesterol and lower phosphate level. Age (HR 1.086, p = 0.0028), fetuin (0.024, p = 0.0448), and interleukin-10 (top tertile HR 4.720, p = 0.0359) were associated with mortality. Conclusions: In this cohort...

... with comorbidity data (n = 16,527) were included. The relationship between comorbidities and mortality at 90 days and one year after 90 days from start of RRT was explored using Cox regression. Results: Completeness of comorbidity data was 44.4% in 2009 compared with 52.1% in 2004. Of patients with data, 56.5% had...

... mortality and hospitalization of HD patients with or without PEW. Methods: In 81 chronic HD patients with different nutritional status assessed by the Malnutrition Inflammation Score (MIS), vitamin D deficiency (25-OH-vitamin D 3 levels ≤30 nmol/l or ≤12 ng/ml) was prospectively investigated for its...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Chronic kidney disease Rate of decline Mortality Progression The National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF KDOQI) clinical...

... patients who had catheters removed for suspected or confirmed CRI (50.5% male, mean age 56.9 years) from January 1, 2007, till May 2009. We retrospectively retrieved microbiology, mortality and echocardiography data from the hospital electronic databases. Results: There were 115 removal-unique cultures...

... tool and a strong predictor of outcome in end-stage renal disease patients. We obtained comorbidity data from the hospital discharge database using the International Classification of Disease, 10th revision (ICD-10) and analyzed the mortality rate in incident patients undergoing maintenance...

... of ACEI/ARB (OR 1.90, 95% CI 1.27–2.85) were risk factors of AKI. Mortality rose progressively with increased AKIN stage (non-AKI 0.7%, stage 1 4.9%, stage 2 12.1% and stage 3 48.7%). In ROC analysis, AKIN classification was identified to be associated with in-hospital mortality with an AUC of 0.865 (95...

... occurred in 46 patients within 7 days after colistin treatment and in 19 patients after 7 days. The patients with early AKI had a higher mortality rate than those with late AKI (OR: 4.37, 95% CI: 1.34, 14.18). In conclusion, clinicians might be cautioned that the mortality rate is higher for the patients...