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ABSTRACT: Background
Dialysis patients are typically inactive and their physical activity (PA) decreases over time. Uremic toxicity has been suggested as a potential causal factor of low PA in dialysis patients. Post-dilution high-volume online hemodiafiltration (HDF) provides greater higher molecular weight removal and studies suggest better clinical/patient-reported outcomes compared with hemodialysis (HD).Methods
HDFIT was a randomized controlled trial at 13 clinics in Brazil that aimed to investigate the effects of HDF on measured PA (step counts) as a primary outcome. Stable HD patients (vintage 3-24 months) were randomized to receive HDF or high-flux HD. Treatment effect of HDF on the primary outcome from baseline to 3 and 6 months was estimated using a linear mixed-effects model.Results
We randomized 195 patients (HDF 97; HD 98) between August 2016 and October 2017. Despite the achievement of a high convective volume in the majority of sessions and a positive impact on solute removal, the treatment effect HDF on the primary outcome was +538 [95% confidence interval (CI) -330 to 1407] steps/24 h after dialysis compared with HD, and was not statistically significant. Despite a lack of statistical significance, the observed size of the treatment effect was modest and driven by steps taken between 1.5 and 24.0 h after dialysis, in particular between 20 and 24 h (+197 steps; 95% CI -95 to 488).Conclusions
HDF did not have a statistically significant treatment effect on PA 24 h following dialysis, albeit effect sizes may be clinically meaningful and deserve further investigation.
SUBMITTER: Pecoits-Filho R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8160948 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pecoits-Filho Roberto R Larkin John J Poli-de-Figueiredo Carlos Eduardo CE Cuvello-Neto Américo Lourenço AL Barra Ana Beatriz Lesqueves ABL Gonçalves Priscila Bezerra PB Sheth Shimul S Guedes Murilo M Han Maggie M Calice-Silva Viviane V de Castro Manuel Carlos Martins MCM Kotanko Peter P de Moraes Thyago Proenca TP Raimann Jochen G JG Canziani Maria Eugenia F MEF
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 20210501 6
<h4>Background</h4>Dialysis patients are typically inactive and their physical activity (PA) decreases over time. Uremic toxicity has been suggested as a potential causal factor of low PA in dialysis patients. Post-dilution high-volume online hemodiafiltration (HDF) provides greater higher molecular weight removal and studies suggest better clinical/patient-reported outcomes compared with hemodialysis (HD).<h4>Methods</h4>HDFIT was a randomized controlled trial at 13 clinics in Brazil that aimed ...[more]