TY - JOUR
T1 - Associations and interactions of age, sex, and duration of hemodialysis with compliance in uremic patients
AU - Takaki, Jiro
AU - Nishi, Tadahiro
AU - Shimoyama, Hiromi
AU - Inada, Toshio
AU - Matsuyama, Norimasa
AU - Sasaki, Tadashi
AU - Kumano, Hiroaki
AU - Kuboki, Tomifusa
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - Purpose. The aim of this study was to assess the relationships of compliance with age, sex, and duration of hemodialysis (HD) simultaneously in a large population of uremic patients on HD. Methods. Uremic patients (n = 484) who were regularly undergoing 3 HD sessions/week in Japan were investigated with regard to age, sex, duration of HD, and compliance measures (i.e., blood urea nitrogen [BUN], serum potassium [SK], and serum phosphorus levels [SPO4] levels and interdialytic weight gain [IDWG]). Associations and interactions among them were assessed by correlations and hierarchical multiple regression analyses. Results. Older age was significantly associated with low levels of BUN, SPO4, and IDWG (p<0.05), but not with SK levels. Longer duration of HD was significantly associated with high levels of SK, SPO4, and IDWG (p<0.05), but not with BUN levels. The regression lines illustrating significant (p<0.05) interactions predict that in men, the longer the duration of HD, the higher the levels of BUN and SK, and the higher the IDWG; this was not the case in women. Conclusions. In uremic patients on HD, compliance was likely to be different based on the patient's sex and duration of HD.
AB - Purpose. The aim of this study was to assess the relationships of compliance with age, sex, and duration of hemodialysis (HD) simultaneously in a large population of uremic patients on HD. Methods. Uremic patients (n = 484) who were regularly undergoing 3 HD sessions/week in Japan were investigated with regard to age, sex, duration of HD, and compliance measures (i.e., blood urea nitrogen [BUN], serum potassium [SK], and serum phosphorus levels [SPO4] levels and interdialytic weight gain [IDWG]). Associations and interactions among them were assessed by correlations and hierarchical multiple regression analyses. Results. Older age was significantly associated with low levels of BUN, SPO4, and IDWG (p<0.05), but not with SK levels. Longer duration of HD was significantly associated with high levels of SK, SPO4, and IDWG (p<0.05), but not with BUN levels. The regression lines illustrating significant (p<0.05) interactions predict that in men, the longer the duration of HD, the higher the levels of BUN and SK, and the higher the IDWG; this was not the case in women. Conclusions. In uremic patients on HD, compliance was likely to be different based on the patient's sex and duration of HD.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037229029
SN - 0090-2934
VL - 32
SP - 12
EP - 17
JO - Dialysis and Transplantation
JF - Dialysis and Transplantation
IS - 1
ER -