ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
Association of Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference with All-Cause Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients.
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- Clinical Significance of Nutritional Status, Inflammation, and Body Composition in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients-A Case-Control Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Physical Activity, Body Composition, Serum Myokines and the Risk of Death in Hemodialysis Patients.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Obesity and chronic kidney disease: A current review.Obesity science & practice · 2023Review
- Conicity index as an indicator of abdominal obesity in individuals with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis.PloS one · 2023Article
- Abdominal obesity in Chinese patients undergoing hemodialysis and its association with all-cause mortality.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Associations of body mass index, fasting insulin, and inflammation with mortality: a prospective cohort study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Article
- Hypertension modifies the associations of body mass index and waist circumference with all-cause mortality among older Chinese: a retrospective cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Association between Body Mass Index and Renal Outcomes Modified by Chronic Kidney Disease and Anemia: The Obesity Paradox for Renal Outcomes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Normal weight and waist obesity indicated by increased total body fat associated with all-cause mortality in stage 3-5 chronic kidney disease.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Weight change and fracture risk in patients with diabetic kidney disease: A nationwide population-based study.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Comparison of novel visceral obesity indexes with traditional obesity measurements in predicting of metabolically unhealthy nonobese phenotype in hemodialysis patients.BMC endocrine disorders · 2021Article
- U-Shaped Association between Waist-to-Hip Ratio and All-Cause Mortality in Stage 3-5 Chronic Kidney Disease Patients with Body Mass Index Paradox.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Article
- Cumulative hypertension burden and risk of end-stage renal disease.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2021Article
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Abstract
In this study based on a large nationally representative sample of Korean adults, we investigated the potential associations of the body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) with mortality in patients undergoing hemodialysis. We obtained the data of 18,699 participants >20 years of age who were followed up with for 4 years and for whom BMI and WC information were available, using a nationally representative dataset from the Korean National Health Insurance System. Patients were stratified into five levels by their baseline BMI and into six levels by their WC (5-cm increments). A total of 4975 deaths occurred during a median follow-up period of 48.2 months. Participants with a higher BMI had a lower mortality rate than those with a lower BMI. In a fully adjusted Cox regression analysis, being overweight and obese was associated with a significantly lower relative risk of all-cause mortality relative to the reference group. Conversely, the mortality rate was higher among participants with a high WC than among those with a low WC. Participants with the highest WC had a higher risk of mortality, while those with the lowest WC level had a significantly lower risk of mortality. In conclusion, all-cause mortality was positively associated with WC, a measure of abdominal obesity, and inversely associated with BMI, a measure of body volume, in patients undergoing hemodialysis.
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