Visceral adiposity index and risks of cardiovascular events and mortality in prevalent hemodialysis patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The visceral adiposity index (VAI) is a newly-derived measure of visceral adiposity with well-validated predictive power for cardiovascular (CV) outcomes in the general population. However, this predictability has not been investigated in hemodialysis patients, and whether VAI is superior to waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) in predicting CV outcomes and survival in hemodialysis patients remains unknown.

Methods

We performed a prospective study including 464 prevalent hemodialysis patients. The composite outcome was the occurrence of death and CV events during follow-up. Using multivariate Cox regression analysis, VAI, WC and WHtR were tested for the predictive power of outcomes. To evaluate the predictive performance of the VAI, WC and WHt

SUBMITTER: Chen HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4189758 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature