Evaluation of anemia management among hemodialysis patients in Palestine: associated factors and clinical outcomes
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2020-01-23
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Rajabi, Nada
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Nada Sadek Rajabi
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Background: Anemia is a frequent complication in patients on maintaining hemodialysis (HD). Appropriate management involves the administration of iron supplementation and erythropoietin stimulating agents (ESA) therapy besides monitoring the response. Poor health related quality of life (HRQOL) is also a common impairment in HD patients results from the dialysis procedure it-self or its related comorbidity. This study aimed to evaluate anemia management in HD patients from Palestine, determine the associated demographic and clinical characteristics with it, describe patients HRQOL and its association with appropriate anemia treatment.
Methods: The study was a cross sectional observational study; patients were included from three dialysis centers from West Bank - Palestine during the period of 24-June to 5-September 2018. The data filled by interviewing the enrolled patients and getting access to patient’s health profiles. The data collection form consisted from two portions, the initial contains demographic and clinical information about the patients while the latest consists of the European Quality of Life 5- Dimensions scale (EQ-5D-5L) that represents the descriptive system and the EQ
visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS) which represents the health status of patient in their own judgment.
Results: 226 patients included. Their mean age (± SD) was 57 ± 13.9 years. The mean hemoglobin (Hb) level (± SD) was 10.63 ± 1.71 g/dl, 34.1% of patients had Hb level 10-11.5 g/dl. Only 72.1% and 81.9% of patients recorded for serum ferritin and transferrin saturation (TSAT) respectively. 33.1% of patients had serum ferritin ≥ 500ng/ml and 50.3% had TSAT ≥ 30%. All patients who received iron supplementation received it by intravenous route and dose of 100mg of iron sucrose. Almost 86.7% of patients received Darbepoetin by intravenous route and weekly dose of 0.45 mcg/kg, 24% of them had Hb >11.5g/dl. On the other hand, 2.4% of patients had Hb < 10g/dl and did not received ESA therapy. Regarding EQ-5D-5L 22.6%, 54.9%, 32.3%, 29.6% and 25.2% of patients had level of “no problem” across the dimension of quality of life; mobility, self-care, usual activity, pain/ discomfort and anxiety respectively. Only 0.9% of patients had the highest degree of difficulty in the five dimensions. There was a significant association between Hb level, number of years the patients received HD and HRQOL.
Conclusion: Our study found a significant association between Hb level and patients HRQOL, therefore the appropriate management of anemia in HD patients by adherence to NKF-KDOQI guideline recommendations provides an improvement in their quality of life in addition to obtain the optimal therapy.
Key word: Anemia, Hemodialysis, Hemoglobin, Iron status, Erythropoietin stimulating agent, Health related quality of life.
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Evaluation of anemia management among hemodialysis patients in Palestine: associated factors and clinical outcomes