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- Title
Serum biomarkers of iron stores are associated with worse physical health-related quality of life in nondialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease patients with or without anemia.
- Authors
Guedes, Murilo; Muenz, Daniel; Zee, Jarcy; Lopes, Marcelo Barreto; Waechter, Sandra; Stengel, Bénédicte; Massy, Ziad A; Speyer, Elodie; Ayav, Carole; Finkelstein, Fredric; Sesso, Ricardo; Pisoni, Ronald L; Robinson, Bruce M; Pecoits-Filho, Roberto
- Abstract
Background Iron deficiency (ID) is a common condition in nondialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (NDD-CKD) patients that is associated with poorer clinical outcomes. However, the effect of ID on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in this population is unknown. We analyzed data from a multinational cohort of NDD-CKD Stages 3–5 patients to test the association between transferrin saturation (TSAT) index and ferritin with HRQoL. Methods Patients from Brazil (n = 205), France (n = 2015) and the USA (n = 293) in the Chronic Kidney Disease Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (CKDopps, 2013–2019) were included. We evaluated the association of TSAT and ferritin (and functional and absolute ID, defined as TSAT ≤20% and ferritin ≥300 or <50 ng/mL) on pre-specified HRQoL measures, including the 36-item Kidney Disease Quality of Life physical component summary (PCS) and mental component summary (MCS) as the primary outcomes. Models were adjusted for confounders including hemoglobin (Hb). Results TSAT ≤15% and ferritin <50 ng/mL and ≥300 ng/mL were associated with worse PCS scores, but not with MCS. Patients with composite TSAT ≤20% and ferritin <50 or ≥300 ng/mL had lower functional status and worse PCS scores than those with a TSAT of 20–30% and ferritin 50–299 ng/mL. Patients with a lower TSAT were less likely to perform intense physical activity. Adjustment for Hb only slightly attenuated the observed effects. Conclusions Low TSAT levels, as well as both low TSAT with low ferritin and low TSAT with high ferritin, are associated with worse physical HRQoL in NDD-CKD patients, even after accounting for Hb level. Interventional studies of iron therapy on HRQoL among NDD-CKD individuals are needed to confirm these findings.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CHRONIC kidney failure; ERYTHROPOIETIN receptors; QUALITY of life; CHRONICALLY ill; PEDIATRIC nephrology; FERRITIN; BIOMARKERS
- Publication
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 9, p1694
- ISSN
0931-0509
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ndt/gfab050