Frailty Assessment Among Kidney Transplant Candidates

Parc de Salut Mar500 enrolled

Overview

Frailty is common among chronic kidney disease patients who are on the kidney transplant (KT) waiting list. The aim of this study is to assess frailty according to different frailty tools among KT candidates and to establish potential biomarkers of frailty.

This is an observational study where KT candidates will be assessed for frailty according to: * Frailty Fried Phenotype and * FRAIL scale Sociodemographics and clinical variables will be collected and serum samples will be obtained in order to implement further studies regarding biomarkers of frailty..

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

500

Conditions

Frailty Kidney Transplant; Complications

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * KT candidates accepted for the KT waiting list Exclusion Criteria: * No willing for participating * Difficulty in understanding Spanish or English

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Prevalence of frailty among KT candidates

Prevalence of frailty according FRIED and FRAIL scale

Time frame: 2015-2020

Biomarkers of frailty among KT candidates

Serum samples for biomarkers

Time frame: 2015-2020

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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