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Quality-of-Life and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients
Author(s) -
Usama Feroze,
Nazanin Noori,
Csaba P. Kövesdy,
Miklos Z. Molnar,
David Martín,
Astrid Reina-Patton,
Debbie Benner,
Rachelle Bross,
Keith C. Norris,
Joel D. Kopple,
Kamyar KalantarZadeh
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.07690910
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , quality of life (healthcare) , mental health , hemodialysis , bayesian multivariate linear regression , cohort , confidence interval , gerontology , physical therapy , demography , linear regression , psychiatry , nursing , machine learning , sociology , computer science
Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients often have protein-energy wasting, poor health-related quality of life (QoL), and high premature death rates, whereas African-American MHD patients have greater survival than non-African-American patients. We hypothesized that poor QoL scores and their nutritional correlates have a bearing on racial survival disparities of MHD patients.

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