DIETary Intake, Death and Hospitalization in Adult With End-stage Kidney Disease Treated With HemoDialysis (DIET-HD) Study

Giovanni Strippoli9,757 enrolled

Overview

The DIETary intake, death and hospitalisation in adults with end-stage kidney disease treated with HaemoDialysis (DIET-HD) study is a multinational prospective cohort study designed to evaluate the association between nutrition and dietary patterns and health outcomes in prevalent adult haemodialysis patients in Europe and South America.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

9,757

Conditions

Diet Habit End Stage Renal Disease

Interventions

dietary intake of omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acidsOTHER

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * End-stage kidney disease * Long-term haemodialysis for at least the previous 90 days * 18 years or older * Treating team agrees to the patient's involvement in the study * Participant willing to provide written and informed consent.- Exclusion Criteria: * significant neurocognitive disability or medical comorbidity that would preclude them from understanding the dietary questionnaire even if assisted * a life expectancy less than 6 months according to their treating physician * planned kidney transplantation within 6 months of baseline

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Cardiovascular mortality

Defined as sudden death or death attributed to acute myocardial infarction, pericarditis, atherosclerotic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, valvular heart disease, pulmonary edema, or congestive cardiac failure

Time frame: 12 months since baseline dietary evaluation

Secondary Outcomes

All-cause mortality

Time frame: 12 months since baseline dietary evaluation

Infection-related mortality

Time frame: 12 months since baseline dietary evaluation

All-cause and cardiovascular related hospitalisation

Time frame: 12 months since baseline dietary evaluation

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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