Serum Potassium and Mortality Risk in Hemodialysis Patients: A Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

Both hypo- and hyperkalemia can cause fatal cardiac arrhythmias. Although predialysis serum potassium level is a known modifiable risk factor for death in patients receiving hemodialysis, especially for hypokalemia, this risk may be underestimated. Therefore, we investigated the relationship between predialysis serum potassium level and death in incident hemodialysis patients and whether there is an optimum level.

Study design

Prospective multicenter cohort study.

Setting & participants

1,117 incident hemodialysis patients (aged >18 years) from the Netherlands Cooperative Study on the Adequacy of Dialysis-2 study were included and followed from their first hemodialysis treatment until death, transplantation, switch to peritoneal dialysis, or a ma

SUBMITTER: de Rooij ENM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8767120 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature