Sudden Cardiac Death No. 1 Risk for Patients on Dialysis

[jordanfstop]

Study: Inflammation, malnutrition identified as key risk factors

By Eric Vohr
Johns Hopkins Medicine

In a 10-year study of more than a thousand kidney failure patients, sudden cardiac death emerged as the No. 1 cause of death for patients on dialysis, according to a Johns Hopkins researcher.

The study, already published online and appearing in the Nov. 2 issue of Kidney International, identified systemic inflammatory response and malnutrition as key risk factors for the fatal heart attacks.

"This is believed to be the first time anyone has taken a rigorous prospective look at why so many patients on dialysis die from sudden cardiac death, and the results could help doctors identify those at highest risk and potentially save lives," said Rulan S. Parekh, associate professor in the Department of Nephrology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Read the rest here: http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2008/27oct08/27sudden.html

 

[VentMedic]

As I have said in many of my posts; the dialysis patient can be one of the sickest patients that can go very bad very fast in the back of your truck. However, somehow ambulance crews usually manage to wheel them into the dialysis center before announcing something might be wrong with the patient. Of course, there are also those that just assume the patient is taking a nap. Never under estimate those "BS" calls as so many like to categorize dialysis runs.

 

[reaper]

But the sad part is all the money spent on a study, when we already knew the answer!

Why not spend that money on a study of how to prevent the outcome?

 

[Meursault]

But the sad part is all the money spent on a study, when we already knew the answer!

Think about what you just said. See if you can find the hole.