health-related quality of life in hemodialysis patients: an iranian multi-center study

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zohreh rostami nephrology and urology research center, baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; nephrology and urology research center, baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran. tel: +98-9121544897, fax: +98-2188934125

behzad einollahi nephrology and urology research center, baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran

mahboob lessan-pezeshki department of nephrology, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran

azam soleimani najaf abadi department of nephrology, artesh university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran

چکیده

conclusions this study showed that pcs and mcs score were slightly more than overall results while kdcs was slightly less than overall results. in addition, dialysis adequacy with kt/v between 1 and 1.2 is associated with lower rate of hospitalization. patients and methods a total of 6,930 chronic hemodialysis (hd) patients enrolled. kdcs-sf version 1.3 questionnaire was used to assess the health related quality of life (hrqol). we pooled pcs, mcs and kdcs scores with random effect model from 19 similar studies performed between 1996 and 2010 results the mean age was 54.4 ± 17.1 years. mean pcs, mcs and kdcs scores obtained for the study cohort were 40.79 ± 20.10, 47.79 ± 18.31 and 57.97 ± 11.70, respectively; the total score of sf-36 plus kdcs was 51.12 ± 13.41 as well. the most common primary known disease was hypertension (31.9%) and the second etiology was diabetes (25.5%). in multilevel logistic regression, kt/v between 1 and 1.2 and pcs, kdcs more than 50 were considered as a significant reduction in the risk of hospitalization. background the effectiveness of health care and health policy developments are often determined by health-related quality of life (hrqol) assessment. objectives the objective of this study was to explore the potential corresponding factors and traditional biomarkers of hrqol in a large number of iranian hemodialysis patients.

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