Declining comorbidity-adjusted mortality rates in English patients receiving maintenance renal replacement therapy.

Storey BC., Staplin N., Harper CH., Haynes R., Winearls CG., Goldacre R., Emberson JR., Goldacre MJ., Baigent C., Landray MJ., Herrington WG.

We aimed to compare long-term mortality trends in end-stage renal disease versus general population controls after accounting for differences in age, sex and comorbidity. Cohorts of 45,000 patients starting maintenance renal replacement therapy (RRT) and 5.3 million hospital controls were identified from two large electronic hospital inpatient data sets: the Oxford Record Linkage Study (1965-1999) and all-England Hospital Episode Statistics (2000-2011). All-cause and cause-specific three-year mortality rates for both populations were calculated using Poisson regression and standardized to the age, sex, and comorbidity structure of an average 1970-2008 RRT population. The median age at initiation of RRT in 1970-1990 was 49 years, increasing to 61 years by 2006-2008. Over that period, there were increases in the prevalence of vascular disease (from 10.0 to 25.2%) and diabetes (from 6.7 to 33.9%). After accounting for age, sex and comorbidity differences, standardized three-year all-cause mortality rates in treated patients with end-stage renal disease between 1970 and 2011 fell by about one-half (relative decline 51%, 95% confidence interval 41-60%) steeper than the one-third decline (34%, 31-36%) observed in the general population. Declines in three-year mortality rates were evident among those who received a kidney transplant and those who remained on dialysis, and among those with and without diabetes. These data suggest that the full extent of mortality rate declines among RRT patients since 1970 is only apparent when changes in comorbidity over time are taken into account, and that mortality rates in RRT patients appear to have declined faster than in the general population.

DOI

10.1016/j.kint.2017.11.020

Type

Journal article

Journal

Kidney Int

Publication Date

05/2018

Volume

93

Pages

1165 - 1174

Keywords

RRT, epidemiological, mortality trends, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cause of Death, Comorbidity, Electronic Health Records, England, Female, Humans, Inpatients, Kidney Failure, Chronic, Male, Middle Aged, Mortality, Prevalence, Renal Replacement Therapy, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome, Young Adult

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