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The relation between nutrition indices and age in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis receiving similar small solute clearances

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Objective: To analyze the effect of age on nutrition indices in subjects on the same continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) schedule. Methods: We analyzed 613 sets of clearance values and nutrition indices in 302 CAPD patients. Small solute clearances included urea clearance (Kt/Vurea) and creatinine clearance (Ccr). Nutrition indices included body mass index (BMI), serum albumin, urea and creatinine, 24-h urea nitrogen and creatinine excretion in urine plus dialysate, protein nitrogen appearance (PNA), PNA normalized by standard weight (nPNA), lean body mass (LBM) computed by creatinine kinetics, and LBM/Weight. CAPD subjects were classified in 4 age quartiles (Q): Group Q1, age 33.7 ± 7.6 years, N = 149; group Q2, age 49.5 ± 3.8 years, N = 158; group Q3, age 61.5 ± 2.6 years, N = 154; and group Q4, age 72.1 ± 5.4 years, N = 152. Group comparison was done by one-way ANOVA or chi-square. Predictors of low nutritional parameters were identified by logistic regression. Selected variables were compared by linear regression. Results: Mean Kt/Vurea and Ccrwere above the current adequacy standards and did not differ between the age quartiles. In contrast, older quartiles had, in general, lower nutrition indices than younger quartiles. However, the youngest quartile had the lowest BMI. By logistic regression, young age was a predictor of low BMI, while advanced age was a predictor of low creatinine and urea nitrogen excretion, low nPNA, and low LBM/Weight. The regressions of nPNA on Kt/Vurea differed between the age quartiles. By these regressions, the youngest quartile had higher nPNA values for the same Kt/Vurea than the oldest quartile in the clinically relevant range of Kt/Vurea and nPNA values. Conclusions: Nutrition indices are worse in older than in younger CAPD patients with the same small solute clearances. Nutrition of CAPD patients is adversely affected by age and requires special attention in the older age group.

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  1. Medicine Service, New Mexico VA Health Care System and University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

    A.H. Tzamaloukas, G.H. Murata, K. Servilla & S. Din

  2. The Peritoneal Dialysis Program, Division of Nephrology, The Toronto Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    D.G. Oreopoulos

  3. Division of Nephrology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio, USA

    P. Rao & D. Malhotra

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Tzamaloukas, A., Oreopoulos, D., Murata, G. et al. The relation between nutrition indices and age in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis receiving similar small solute clearances. Int Urol Nephrol 32, 449–458 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017579105158

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