Abdominal obesity in Chinese patients undergoing hemodialysis and its association with all-cause mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Obesity in patients undergoing hemodialysis is common. However, there is limited information on the relationship between obesity types defined by the combined body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) classification criteria and all-cause mortality in Chinese hemodialysis patients. Our objective was to determine the association between obesity types and all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients.

Methods

We conducted a prospective cohort study including patients from 11 hemodialysis centers in Beijing. According to the World Health Organization's standards, patients were classified into 2 categories with WC and 4 categories with BMI and then followed up for 1 year. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to compare the difference in the cumulative sur

SUBMITTER: Shi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10637872 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature