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Comparison of hydration and nutritional status between young and elderly hemodialysis patients through bioimpedance analysis

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Title
Comparison of hydration and nutritional status between young and elderly hemodialysis patients through bioimpedance analysis
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Clinical Interventions in Aging, August 2015
DOI 10.2147/cia.s86229
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Jung Eun Lee, In Young Jo, Song Mi Lee, Woo Jeong Kim, Hoon Young Choi, Sung Kyu Ha, Hyung Jong Kim, Hyeong Cheon Park

Abstract

The number of elderly people on dialysis is increasing rapidly. Fluid overload and malnutrition status are serious problems in elderly dialysis patients. We aimed to compare the hydration and nutritional status through bioimpedance analysis (BIA) between young and elderly hemodialysis (HD) patients and to analyze risk factors related to fluid overload and malnutrition status in these patients. We conducted a cross-sectional study, in which 82 HD (males 42, mean age 58.7±12.9 years) patients were enrolled. We collected different types of data: laboratory data, such as serum creatinine, albumin, total iron-binding capacity, hemoglobin, total cholesterol; anthropometric data, such as hand grip strength (HGS); BIA data, such as intracellular water, skeletal muscle mass, body cell mass, bone mineral content, phase angle (PhA), extra cellular water (ECW)/total body water (TBW) ratio; and malnutrition-inflammation score (MIS), which is a traditional nutritional parameter for dialysis patients. All patients were stratified into two groups according to their age: young (<65 years [n=54]) and elderly (≥65 years [n=28]). Total iron-binding capacity and HGS were significantly lower in elderly HD patients than in young HD patients (198.9±35.6 vs 221.4±52.1 mcg/dL; and 22.4±10.3 vs 36.4±23.2 kg, respectively) (P<0.05). Also, intracellular water and PhA measured by BIA were significantly lower (18.3±4.0 vs 20.3±4.2 L [P=0.043]; and 4.0±1.0 vs 4.9±1.2° [P=0.002], respectively), and ECW/TBW were higher in elderly HD patients (0.40±0.01 vs 0.39±0.01 [P=0.001]). ECW/TBW was positively associated with age (P<0.001) and the presence of diabetes (P<0.001) and was negatively associated with sex (P=0.001), albumin (P<0.001), urine volume (P=0.042), HGS (P<0.001), and PhA by BIA (P<0.001). MIS was negatively related to sex (P=0.001), albumin (P<0.001), HGS (P=0.001), and PhA (P<0.001) in HD patients. On multivariate analysis, older age (P=0.031), the presence of diabetes (P=0.035), and decreased PhA (P<0.001) were independent risk factors for increased ECW/TBW, representative of fluid overload status, whereas only decreased PhA (P=0.008) was a significant factor for MIS, representative of malnutrition status in these HD patients. We found that fluid overload and malnutrition status were more common in elderly HD patients compared with young HD patients. PhA was a significant independent factor in fluid overload status and malnutrition in these HD patients. Thus, our results indicated that PhA assessed by BIA might be a clinically useful method for assessing nutritional and hydration status in elderly HD patients.

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Japan 1 1%
Unknown 92 99%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 14%
Researcher 9 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 17 18%
Unknown 24 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 30 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 14%
Sports and Recreations 5 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Physics and Astronomy 3 3%
Other 6 6%
Unknown 32 34%
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#20,656,820
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#1,550
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