Systolic blood pressure and mortality in prevalent haemodialysis patients in the HEMO study
Open Access
- 22 April 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Human Hypertension
- Vol. 25 (2), 98-105
- https://doi.org/10.1038/jhh.2010.42
Abstract
Previous studies of blood pressure and mortality in haemodialysis have yielded mixed results, perhaps due to confounding by comorbid conditions. We hypothesized that after improved accounting for confounding factors, higher systolic blood pressure (SBP) would be associated with higher all-cause mortality. We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the haemodialysis study, a randomized trial in prevalent haemodialysis patients. We used three proportional hazard models to determine the relative hazard at different levels of SBP: (1) Model-BL used baseline SBP; (2) Model-TV used SBP as a time-varying variable; and (3) Model-TV-Lag added a 3-month lag to Model-TV to de-emphasize changes in SBP associated with acute illness. In all the models, pre-dialysis SBP <120 mm Hg was associated with a higher risk of mortality compared with the referent group (140–159 mm Hg); higher pre-dialysis SBP was not associated with higher risk of mortality. In conclusion, we observed a robust association between lower pre-dialysis SBP and higher risk for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in a well-characterized cohort of prevalent haemodialysis patients. Randomized clinical trials are needed to define optimal blood pressure targets in the haemodialysis population.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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