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. 2024 Apr;47(4):e24259.
doi: 10.1002/clc.24259.

Interdialytic home systolic blood pressure variability increases all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients

Liping Dong  1   2 , Ming Tian  1 , Hua Li  1 , Junwu Dong  1 , Xiaohong Song  1
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Interdialytic home systolic blood pressure variability increases all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients

Liping Dong et al. Clin Cardiol. 2024 Apr.

Abstract

Background: The association between Interdialytic home blood pressure variability (BPV) and the prognosis of patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) largely unknown.

Hypothesis: We proposed the hypothesis that interdialytic home BPV exert effect on cardiac and all-cause mortality among individuals undergoing MHD.

Methods: A total of 158 patients receiving MHD at the hemodialysis unit of Wuhan Fourth Hospital between December 2019 and August 2020 were included in this prospective cohort study. Patients were divided into tertiles according to the systolic BPV (SBPV), and the primary endpoints were cardiac and all-cause death. Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to assess the relationship between long-term survival and interdialytic home SBPV. In addition, Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to identify risk factors contributing to poor prognosis.

Results: The risk of cardiac death and all-cause death was gradually increased in patients according to tertiles of SBPV (3.5% vs. 14.8% vs. 19.2%, p for trend = .021; and 11.5% vs. 27.8% vs. 44.2%, p for trend <.001). The Cox regression analysis revealed that compared to Tertile 1, the hazard ratios for all-cause mortality in Tertile 2 and Tertile 3 were 3.13 (p = .026) and 3.24 (p = .021), respectively, after adjustment for a series of covariates.

Conclusions: The findings revealed a positive correlation between increased interdialytic home SBPV and elevated mortality risk in patients with MHD.

Keywords: blood pressure variability; hemodialysis; home blood pressure measurement; mortality.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Restricted cubic spline curves of the risk for cardiovascular mortality (A) and all‐cause death (B).
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Figure 2
Percentage of cardiovascular and all‐cause mortality in tertiles of interdialysis home systolic blood pressure variability.
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Figure 3
Kaplan–Meier survival curves and life tables for occurrence of the endpoint (A) cardiovascular mortality and all‐cause death (B).
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