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The association between body mass index and mortality among Asian peritoneal dialysis patients: A meta-analysis.
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- Socioeconomic status and mortality among dialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International urology and nephrology · 2019Pooled it
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- Protecting peritoneal dialysis patients: evaluation and prevention strategies for noninfectious risk factors.Renal failure · 2026Review
- A latent profile analysis of hierarchical management of supportive care needs in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Obesity and Its Clinical Implications in End-Stage Kidney Disease.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- The relationship between body mass index changes and mortality in geriatric peritoneal dialysis patients: a case-control study.BMC nephrology · 2024Article
- Plasma vaspin levels and clinical outcome in incident peritoneal dialysis patients.BMC nephrology · 2023Article
- Omentin-1 Levels and Outcomes in Incident Peritoneal Dialysis Patients.Kidney medicine · 2023Article
- Association analysis of body composition with survival among prevalent peritoneal dialysis patients.International urology and nephrology · 2022Article
- Obesity, Weight Gain, and Fluid Overload in Peritoneal Dialysis.Frontiers in nephrology · 2022Review
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- Clinical value of body composition monitor to evaluate lean and fat tissue mass in peritoneal dialysis.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Observational
- Impact of body mass index on survival in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis: Analysis of data from the Insan Memorial End-Stage Renal Disease Registry of Korea (1985-2014).Kidney research and clinical practice · 2019Article
- Association of body mass index and uncontrolled blood pressure with cardiovascular mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients.Journal of human hypertension · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious studies have revealed that increased body mass index (BMI) is associated with decreased mortality among hemodialysis patients. However, few studies have dealt with the association between BMI and mortality among patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD) and even fewer studies have focused on the Asian PD patients. The reported studies were often non-conclusive and some even yielded contradictory results. This paper, to our best knowledge, registers the first attempt to systematically review the current literature and summarize new results on the association between BMI and mortality among the Asian PD population.
methodA systematic literature review was performed in Medline and EMBASE to identify relevant cohort studies on all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality stratified by BMI categories tailored to Asians among the Asian PD population. We meta-analyzed individual results based on a random effect model, strictly complying with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis.
resultsThe paper reviews seven cohort studies with a total of 3,610 Asian PD patients. Obese group (BMI = 25-29.9 kg/m2) was associated with higher risk of all-cause mortality (HR = 1.46, 95%CI [1.07-1.98]; p = 0.02) and CVD mortality (HR = 2.01, 95%CI [1.14-3.54]; p = 0.02), compared to the normal group (BMI = 18.5-22.9 kg/m2). The underweight group (BMI<18.5kg/m2) was also associated with an elevated risk of all-cause mortality (HR = 2.11, 95%CI [1.46-3.07]; p<0.001). No significant associations between BMI with all-cause mortality were found among the overweight group (23-24.9 kg/m2) (HR = 1.00, 95%CI [0.76-1.32]; p = 0.9). The association between BMI and CVD mortality risk among the underweight and overweight groups was found nonsignificant (p = 0.5 and 0.6 respectively).
conclusionObesity is associated with increased mortality in Asian PD patients. The study indicates a "V-shaped" trend in the association between BMI and mortality in these patients.
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