OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with health-related quality of life in elderly patients on hemodialysis. METHODS Cross-sectional study including 223 patients aged > 60 years on hemodialysis conducted in dialysis centers in the city of Belo Horizonte, southeastern Brazil, in 2008. Health-related quality of life was measured with the Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQOL-SF)...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) treated with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) in Singapore. METHODS The data used in this study were from two cross-sectional surveys of ESRD patients. HRQOL was assessed using the Kidney Disease Quality of Lif...

BACKGROUND The optimal timing for initiating dialysis in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is controversial, especially in the elderly. METHODS 665 patients ≥65 years old who began dialysis from August 2008 to February 2015 were prospectively enrolled in the Clinical Research Center for End-Stage Renal Disease cohort study. Participants were divided into 2 groups based on the median estimated gl...

Abstract Background and Aims Quality of life (QOL) are associated with mortality in dialysis patients. However, the impact QOL index or score on elderly patients end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is controversial. We analyzed relationship between items survival ESRD Method A total 492 ESKD aged > 65 who assessed for were included from a Korean nationwide prospective cohort study. was evalua...

Background Quality of life is one of the parameters to check the improvement of hemodialysis treatment among hemodialysed patients. Those patients will be dealing with this treatment in long term if this treatment is the only way for them to replace their kidney function and this thing will affect their quality of life. Objective To evaluate the quality of life patients on hemodialysis using ...

Amaç: Bu araştırmanın amacı, hemodiyalize giren hastalarda yaşam kalitesinin saptanması ve ilişkili faktörlerin değerlendirilmesiydi.
 Yöntem: araştırma, 74 hasta (erkek: 29, kadın: 45) ile yürütüldü. Bireylerin sosyodemografik özellikleri, hastalık bilgileri, beslenme alışkanlıkları, besin tüketim sıklıkları kaliteleri anket formu sorgulandı antropometrik ölçümleri alındı. Yaşam değerlend...

Ana C. Ricardo, MD, MPH; Eileen Hacker, PhD, RN; Claudia M. Lora, MD; Lynn Ackerson, PhD; Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc; Alan Go, MD; John W. Kusek, PhD; Lisa Nessel, MSS, MLSP; Akinlolu Ojo, MD; Raymond R. Townsend, MD; Dawei Xie, PhD; Carol E. Ferrans, PhD, RN; James P. Lash, MD, on behalf of the CRIC Investigators Objective: Evaluate the reliability and validity of the Kidney Disease Qualit...

Background. Diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) suffer from low quality of life (QOL). We aim to assess the effectiveness of auricular acupressure for QOL improvement in these patients. Materials and Methods. Sixty-two participants were randomly assigned to an auricular or a control arm in a randomized controlled trial. Participants in the auricular arm were instructed to perfor...

This work aimed to evaluate how aging could influence patients' perception of health quality of life (HRQOL), as well as, the effect of aging on dialysis adequacy and in hematological, iron status, inflammatory and nutritional markers. In this transversal study were enrolled 305 ESRD patients under online-hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF) (59.67% males; 64.9 ± 14.3 years old). Data about comorbidities...