Dialysis vintage is associated with a high prevalence and severity of unpleasant symptoms in patients on hemodialysis

Autor: Li Zhu, Xun-Liang Li, Rui Shi, De-Guang Wang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Renal Failure, Vol 45, Iss 1 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0886022X
1525-6049
0886-022X
DOI: 10.1080/0886022X.2023.2201361
Popis: AbstractBackground The burden of physical and emotional symptoms caused by somatic illness is present in most dialysis patients. However, it’s unclear how symptom burden varies among patients with different dialysis vintages. We sought to examine differences in the prevalence and severity of unpleasant symptoms in hemodialysis patients with diverse dialysis vintage cohorts.Methods This cross-sectional study included patients on maintenance hemodialysis at the Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University. We used the Dialysis Symptom Index (DSI) to determine the associated unpleasant symptoms, which is a validated survey to assess symptom burden/severity (higher scores indicate more severe symptoms), over June 2022 – September 2022.Results We studied 146 patients: 35 (24%) had a dialysis vintage of ≤12 months (group 1) and 111 (76%) had a dialysis vintage of >12 months (group 2). Concerning Group 1 patients, the prevalence and severity of unpleasant symptoms were significantly higher in Group 2, the most common individual symptoms included feeling tired or lack of energy and trouble falling asleep (i.e., 75–85% of patients in each group), with dialysis vintage being an independent influencing factor (adjusted OR, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.16 to 0.23). Lower hemoglobin levels, iron stores, and dialysis adequacy levels are correlated with longer dialysis vintage.Conclusion We observed a high prevalence of unpleasant symptoms and symptom clusters in a diverse dialysis vintages hemodialysis cohort. Further studies are needed to accurately and routinely define the symptom burden of chronic patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
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