Impact of nutritional status, inflammation and cardiovascular disease on the mortality of 90 Chinese peritoneal dialysis patients / 北京大学学报(医学版)

ABSTRACT

Objective: To investigate the impact of nutritional status, inflammation and cardiovascular disease on the mortality of 90 patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) . Methods: A cross sectional study was performed in 90 clinically stable CAPD patients. Patients’ nutritional status (by SGA), chronic inflammation (by CRP), cardiovascular disease (CVD) were evaluated. All patients were followed for 24 months. Results: Thirty three of the 90 (36.67%) patients died during the follow up, five patients transferred to hemodialysis and 3 patients received transplantation. The causes of death were CVD in 12, infection in 13 and other causes in 7. Seventeen patients who died were malnourished. Malnourished patients had significantly higher mortality than well nourished patients ( P