Biochemical and Bioimpedance Correlation with Quality of Life and Illness Perception in Hemodialysis Patients

Abstract

In hemodialysis patients malnutrition-inflammation syndrome, evaluated by biochemical laboratory analysis and through bioimpedance spectroscopy, was associated to impaired quality of life and with an increased risk of mortality. The present study goal was to investigate, in a cross-sectional analysis, performed in 122 hemodialysis patients, the association between biochemical parameters and bioimpedance-derived measurements the association of undernutrition with quality of life and illness perception. The results showed that our cohort perceived an impaired quality of life and illness perception and that these psychometric evaluation was associated with malnutrition markers.

Correlation Between Body Composition Analysis and Biochemical Nutritional Markers in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients with Chronic Liver Disease

“…It was found that renal failure per se does not produce a gross defect in the capacity of patients from having a normal rate of albumin syntesis [16]. There are some studies that showed the lack of prompt success of nutritional intervention in correcting hypoalbuminemia, suggesting that nonnutritional factors may contribute to or be responsible for reduced albumin concentration in a fraction of hypoalbuminemic dialysis patients [17]. The morphological and functional integrity of the liver is vital to human health in general as well as to patients with renal disease.…”