The 2012 KDIGO (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) Clinical Practice Guideline for Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease provides clinicians with comprehensive evidence-based recommendations to ...improve patient care. In this commentary, we review these recommendations and the underlying evidence. Most recommendations are well reasoned. For some, the evidence is unclear and recommendations require some qualification. While the KDIGO guideline stresses the potential risks of intravenous iron therapy, withholding iron might have its own risks. The recommendation to avoid hemoglobin levels falling below 9 g/dL sets a lower bound of “acceptability” that may increase blood transfusion. Given the lack of research supporting the optimal transfusion strategy for end-stage renal disease patients, it is difficult to weigh the risks and benefits of red blood cell transfusion. We find a paucity of evidence that hemoglobin concentration targeted between 11 and 11.5 g/dL is associated with a safety risk. Although the evidence that erythropoiesis-stimulating agent use improves patient quality of life is poor, it is possible that the instruments used to measure quality of life may not be well attuned to the needs of chronic kidney disease or dialysis patients. Our last section focuses specifically on the recommendations to treat anemia in children.
US Renal Data System 2012 Annual Data Report Collins, Allan J., MD; Foley, Robert N., MB; Herzog, Charles, MD ...
American journal of kidney diseases,
01/2013, Letnik:
61, Številka:
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Exercise in Individuals With CKD Johansen, Kirsten L., MD; Painter, Patricia, PhD
American journal of kidney diseases,
01/2012, Letnik:
59, Številka:
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There are few studies evaluating exercise in the nondialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) population. This review covers the rationale for exercise in patients with CKD not requiring dialysis and the ...effects of exercise training on physical functioning, progression of kidney disease, and cardiovascular risk factors. In addition, we address the issue of the risk of exercise and make recommendations for implementation of exercise in this population. Evidence from uncontrolled studies and small randomized controlled trials shows that exercise training results in improved physical performance and functioning in patients with CKD. In addition, although there are no studies examining cardiovascular outcomes, several studies suggest that cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, inflammation, and oxidative stress may be improved with exercise training in this population. Although the current literature does not allow for definitive conclusions about whether exercise training slows the progression of kidney disease, no study has reported worsening of kidney function as a result of exercise training. In the absence of guidelines specific to the CKD population, recent guidelines developed for older individuals and patients with chronic disease should be applied to the CKD population. In sum, exercise appears to be safe in this patient population if begun at moderate intensity and increased gradually. The evidence suggests that the risk of remaining inactive is higher. Patients should be advised to increase their physical activity when possible and be referred to physical therapy or cardiac rehabilitation programs when appropriate.
US Renal Data System 2013 Annual Data Report Collins, Allan J., MD; Foley, Robert N., MB; Chavers, Blanche, MD ...
American journal of kidney diseases,
01/2014, Letnik:
63, Številka:
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US Renal Data System 2011 Annual Data Report Collins, Allan J., MD; Foley, Robert N., MB; Chavers, Blanche, MD ...
American journal of kidney diseases,
01/2012, Letnik:
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Background In the context of an aging end-stage renal disease population with multiple comorbid conditions, transplantation professionals face challenges in evaluating the global health of patients ...awaiting kidney transplantation. Functional status might be useful for identifying which patients will derive a survival benefit from transplantation versus dialysis. Study Design Retrospective cohort study of wait-listed patients using data for functional status from a national dialysis provider linked to United Network for Organ Sharing registry data. Setting & Participants Adult kidney transplantation candidates added to the waiting list between 2000 and 2006. Predictor Physical Functioning scale of the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey, analyzed as a time-varying covariate. Outcomes Kidney transplantation; survival benefit of transplantation versus remaining wait-listed. Measurements We used multivariable Cox regression to assess the association between physical function with study outcomes. In survival benefit analyses, transplantation status was modeled as a time-varying covariate. Results The cohort comprised 19,242 kidney transplantation candidates (median age, 51 years; 36% black race) receiving maintenance dialysis. Candidates in the lowest baseline Physical Functioning score quartile were more likely to be inactivated (adjusted HR vs highest quartile, 1.30; 95% CI, 1.21-1.39) and less likely to undergo transplantation (adjusted HR vs highest quartile, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.61-0.68). After transplantation, worse Physical Functioning score was associated with shorter 3-year survival (84% vs 92% for the lowest vs highest function quartiles). However, compared to dialysis, transplantation was associated with a statistically significant survival benefit by 9 months for patients in every function quartile. Limitations Functional status is self-reported. Conclusions Even patients with low function appear to live longer with kidney transplantation versus dialysis. For wait-listed patients, global health measures such as functional status may be more useful in counseling patients about the probability of transplantation than in identifying who will derive a survival benefit from it.
Frailty is a distinct phenotype that is highly prevalent in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and appears to be more prevalent with decreasing glomerular filtration rate. Exercise training or intervention ...to increase physical activity may ameliorate poor physical functioning and frailty, and even may improve survival in patients with CKD. Although exercise interventions improve outcomes across the spectrum of CKD, including patients treated with dialysis, patients treated with dialysis face barriers to exercise that patients with predialysis CKD do not. Rehabilitation at earlier stages of CKD (or prehabilitation before dialysis) might be more beneficial than not addressing the decreasing physical functioning and low physical activity until patients are receiving dialysis. This review summarizes available literature on frailty in the CKD and end-stage renal disease population, including exercise interventions and the limited evidence for prehabilitation as a strategy.
Background A well-accepted definition of frailty includes measurements of physical performance, which may limit its clinical utility. Study Design In a cross-sectional study, we compared prevalence ...and patient characteristics based on a frailty definition that uses self-reported function to the classic performance-based definition and developed a modified self-report−based definition. Setting & Participants Prevalent adult patients receiving hemodialysis in 14 centers around San Francisco and Atlanta in 2009-2011. Index Tests Self-report−based frailty definition in which a score lower than 75 on the Physical Function scale of the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) was substituted for gait speed and grip strength in the classic definition; modified self-report definition with optimized Physical Function score cutoff points derived in a development (one-half) cohort and validated in the other half. Reference Test Performance-based frailty defined as 3 of the following: weight loss, weakness, exhaustion, low physical activity, and slow gait speed. Results 387 (53%) patients were frail based on self-reported function, of whom 209 (29% of the cohort) met the performance-based definition. Only 23 (3%) met the performance-based definition of frailty only. The self-report definition had 90% sensitivity, 64% specificity, 54% positive predictive value, 93% negative predictive value, and 72.5% overall accuracy. Intracellular water per kilogram of body weight and serum albumin, prealbumin, and creatinine levels were highest among nonfrail individuals, intermediate among those who were frail by self-report, and lowest among those who also were frail by performance. Age, percentage of body fat, and C-reactive protein level followed an opposite pattern. The modified self-report definition had better accuracy (84%; 95% CI, 79%-89%) and superior specificity (88%) and positive predictive value (67%). Limitations Our study did not address prediction of outcomes. Conclusions Patients who meet the self-report–based but not the performance-based definition of frailty may represent an intermediate phenotype. A modified self-report definition can improve the accuracy of a questionnaire-based method of defining frailty.
Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) is a product of metabolism of phosphatidylcholine (lecithin) and carnitine by the intestinal microbiome. Elevated serum concentrations of TMAO have been linked to ...adverse cardiovascular outcomes in the general population. We examined correlates of serum TMAO and the relations among serum TMAO concentrations, all-cause mortality, and cardiovascular mortality and hospitalizations in a nationally derived cohort of patients new to hemodialysis (HD).
We quantified serum TMAO by liquid chromatography and online tandem mass spectrometry and assessed nutritional and cardiovascular risk factors in 235 patients receiving HD and measured TMAO in pooled serum from healthy controls. We analyzed time to death and time to cardiovascular death or hospitalization using Cox proportional hazards regression.
Serum TMAO concentrations of patients undergoing HD (median, 43 μM/L; 25th-75th percentile, 28-67 μM/L) were elevated compared with those with normal or near-normal kidney function (1.41 ± 0.49 μM/L). TMAO was directly correlated with serum albumin (Spearman rank correlation, 0.24; 95% CI, 0.12-0.35; P <.001), prealbumin (Spearman rank correlation, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.07-0.31; P = .003), and creatinine (Spearman rank correlation, 0.21; 95% CI, 0.08-0.33; P = .002) and inversely correlated with log C-reactive protein (Spearman rank correlation, -0.18; 95% CI, -0.30 to -0.06; P = .005). Higher serum concentrations of TMAO were not significantly associated with time to death (Spearman rank correlation, 0.84; CI, 0.65-1.09; P = .19) or time to cardiovascular hospitalization or cardiovascular death (Spearman rank correlation, 0.88; CI, 0.57-1.35; P = .55).
Serum TMAO concentrations were markedly elevated and correlated directly with biochemical markers of nutritional status and inversely with markers of inflammation in patients receiving HD. There was no significant association between serum TMAO concentrations and all-cause mortality, cardiovascular death, or hospitalizations. In patients receiving dialysis-in contrast with the general population-adverse vascular effects of TMAO may be counterbalanced by associations with nutritional or inflammatory status.
Consequences of CKD on Functioning Kittiskulnam, Piyawan; Sheshadri, Anoop; Johansen, Kirsten L
Seminars in nephrology,
07/2016, Letnik:
36, Številka:
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is highly prevalent in the United States and throughout the world,(1) with approximately 13% of adults affected.(2) In addition, according to recent estimates, almost ...half of patients with CKD stages 3 to 5 are 70 years of age and older.(2) In the United States, the number of prevalent end-stage renal disease cases continues to increase in patients older than age 65. In light of the demographic characteristics of patients with CKD and ESRD, there has been considerable focus on associations between CKD and cardiovascular outcomes.(3) Until recently, less attention had been paid to other consequences of CKD in general and among older individuals with CKD in particular, but there is now solid evidence linking CKD with impairments of physical function, cognitive function, and emotional function and quality of life. This review summarizes available literature on these topics, focusing specifically on physical functioning and frailty, cognitive function, emotional health, including depression and anxiety, and health-related quality of life.
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