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CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages 1109-1117Publisher
AMER SOC NEPHROLOGY
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.13141216
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- National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [K24-DK091419, R01-DK078106, R01-DK095668]
- AVEO, Inc.
- Shinya Foundation for International Exchange of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine Grant
- Uehara Memorial Foundation Research Fellowship
- Office of Research and Development of the Department of Veterans Affairs [IK2-CX001266-01]
- NIH (NIDDK) [K23-DK102903, R01-DK096920, U01-DK102163]
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Background and objectives There are inconsistent reports on the association of dietary protein intake with serum albumin and outcomes among patients on hemodialysis. Using a new normalized protein catabolic rate (nPCR) variable accounting for residual renal urea clearance, we hypothesized that higher baseline nPCR and rise in nPCR would be associated with higher serum albumin and better survival among incident hemodialysis patients. Design, setting, participants, & measurements Among 36,757 incident hemodialysis patients in a large United States dialysis organization, we examined baseline and change in renal urea clearance corrected nPCR as a protein intake surrogate and modeled their associations with serum albumin and mortality over 5 years (1/2007-12/2011). Results Median nPCRs with and without accounting for renal urea clearance at baseline were 0.94 and 0.78 g/kg per day, respectively (median within-patient difference, 0.14 [interquartile range, 0.07-0.23] g/kg per day). During a median follow-up period of 1.4 years, 8481 deaths were observed. Baseline renal urea clearance corrected nPCR was associated with higher serum albumin and lower mortality in the fully adjusted model (P-trend<0.001). Among 13,895 patients with available data, greater rise in renal urea clearance corrected nPCR during the first 6 months was also associated with attaining high serum albumin (>= 3.8 g/dl) and lower mortality (P-trend<0.001); compared with the reference group (a change of 0.1-0.2 g/kg per day), odds and hazard ratios were 0.53 (95% confidence interval, 0.44 to 0.63) and 1.32 (95% confidence interval, 1.14 to 1.54), respectively, among patients with a change of < 0.2 g/kg per day and 1.62 (95% confidence interval, 1.35 to 1.96) and 0.76 (95% confidence interval, 0.64 to 0.90), respectively, among those with a change of.0.5 g/kg per day. Within a given category of nPCR without accounting for renal urea clearance, higher levels of renal urea clearance corrected nPCR consistently showed lower mortality risk. Conclusions Among incident hemodialysis patients, higher dietary protein intake represented by nPCR and its changes over time appear to be associated with increased serum albumin levels and greater survival. nPCR may be underestimated when not accounting for renal urea clearance. Compared with the conventional nPCR, renal urea clearance corrected nPCR may be a better marker of mortality.
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