Relationship between serum uric acid, all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients: systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To analyse the relationship between serum uric acid (SUA), all-cause and cardiovascular (CV) mortality in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients to inform clinical practice and future research.

Design

A systematic review of observational studies.

Data sources

PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), SinoMed, Chinese Science and Technology Journal Database (VIP) and Wan Fang databases were searched from their inception to January 2021 for cohort and case-control studies reporting SUA and mortality in patients with PD.

Methods

The Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale was used to appraise quality of cohort and case-control studies. Effect estimates were presented as HRs with 95% CIs in a meta-

SUBMITTER: Xue X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8524295 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature