Cognitive and Functional Status and Dialysis Outcomes in Older Hemodialysis Patients

Dementia Clinical Trial

Official title:

Cognitive and Functional Status and Dialysis Outcomes in Older Hemodialysis Patients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00739843
• Other study ID #: 15813B
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 20, 2008
• Last updated: October 31, 2016
• Start date: November 2007
• Est. completion date: September 2010

Study information

• Verified date: October 2016
• Source: University of Chicago
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to estimate how quickly cognitive status and functional status in older patients on hemodialysis declines.

Description:

Dialysis outcome measures, which predict morbidity and mortality of younger patients on renal replacement therapy, such as dialysis clearance, do not correlate with survival of the elderly patients on hemodialysis. Survival of older patients on hemodialysis is significantly worse when compared to that of the younger patients. Conditions commonly affecting older adults, such as functional decline, cognitive impairment, depression and declining quality of life have not been well studied in hemodialysis population. There may be an important relationship between these measurements and outcomes in older dialysis patients. Institution of appropriate age-specific interventions could result in improved health status and mortality of older patients on hemodialysis. Our broad objective is to better understand global functioning of the elderly dialysis patients and its possible impact on dialysis outcomes in attempt to improve health care of the older patients receiving hemodialysis.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 55
• Est. completion date: September 2010
• Est. primary completion date: September 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 60 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Prevalent and incident hemodialysis patients over the age of 60, receiving hemodialysis treatments at the University of Chicago outpatient dialysis program.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients 59 and younger, and patients with the following medical conditions:

malignancies currently requiring chemotherapy or radiation therapy, severe heart failure (NYHA class IV), known HIV infection, or currently active hepatic encephalopathy.

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cognition
• Dementia
• End-stage Renal Disease
• Kidney Failure, Chronic

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Chicago Chronic Hemodialysis Centers	Chicago	Illinois

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Chicago

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States,