TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of blood urea nitrogen to creatinine ratio on mortality and morbidity in hemodialysis patients
T2 - The Q-Cohort Study
AU - Tanaka, Shigeru
AU - Ninomiya, Toshiharu
AU - Taniguchi, Masatomo
AU - Tokumoto, Masanori
AU - Masutani, Kosuke
AU - Ooboshi, Hiroaki
AU - Kitazono, Takanari
AU - Tsuruya, Kazuhiko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s).
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - The association between blood urea nitrogen to creatinine ratio (UCR) and survival is uncertain in hemodialysis patients. We examined the influence of UCR on mortality and morbidity in hemodialysis patients. A total of 3,401 hemodialysis patients were prospectively followed for 4 years. The association between UCR with overall survival was analyzed using a Cox regression model. During a 4-year follow-up period, 545 patients died from any cause and 582 experienced MACE, 392 with coronary heart disease (CHD), 114 with infection-related death, 77 with hemorrhagic stroke, 141 with ischemic stroke, and 107 with cancer death. Every 1 increase in UCR level was significantly associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality (hazard ratio [HR] 1.07; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03-1.12), CHD (HR 1.08; 95% CI 1.02-1.14), and infection-related death (HR 1.11; 95% CI 1.02-1.21). There was no evidence of a significant association between UCR and death from cancer, and incidence of stroke. A high UCR was significantly associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality, infection-related death and incidence of CHD in hemodialysis patients.
AB - The association between blood urea nitrogen to creatinine ratio (UCR) and survival is uncertain in hemodialysis patients. We examined the influence of UCR on mortality and morbidity in hemodialysis patients. A total of 3,401 hemodialysis patients were prospectively followed for 4 years. The association between UCR with overall survival was analyzed using a Cox regression model. During a 4-year follow-up period, 545 patients died from any cause and 582 experienced MACE, 392 with coronary heart disease (CHD), 114 with infection-related death, 77 with hemorrhagic stroke, 141 with ischemic stroke, and 107 with cancer death. Every 1 increase in UCR level was significantly associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality (hazard ratio [HR] 1.07; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03-1.12), CHD (HR 1.08; 95% CI 1.02-1.14), and infection-related death (HR 1.11; 95% CI 1.02-1.21). There was no evidence of a significant association between UCR and death from cancer, and incidence of stroke. A high UCR was significantly associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality, infection-related death and incidence of CHD in hemodialysis patients.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41598-017-14205-2
DO - 10.1038/s41598-017-14205-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 29097750
AN - SCOPUS:85032829674
SN - 2045-2322
VL - 7
JO - Scientific reports
JF - Scientific reports
IS - 1
M1 - 14901
ER -