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Publication Year
2024
Affiliation
1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. 3Bayer US, LLC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 4Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland. 5Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Population Health, and Health Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Authors
Elsayed E, Farag YMK, Ravi KS, Chertow GM, Mc Causland FR

Abstract

Background: Hypervolemia is thought to be a major contributor to higher left ventricular mass (LVM), a potent predictor for cardiovascular mortality among patients on maintenance hemodialysis. We hypothesized that a decrease in vector length (a bioimpedance proxy of hypervolemia) would be associated with an increase in LVM. Methods: Using data from the Frequent Hemodialysis Network Daily Trial (n=160), we used linear regression to assess the association of changes in vector length from baseline to month 12 with changes in magnetic resonance imaging measures of LVM and other cardiac parameters. We adjusted models for the randomized group, baseline vector length, age, sex, race, body mass index, vascular access, dialysis vintage, history of hypertension, heart failure, and diabetes, residual kidney function, predialysis systolic BP, ultrafiltration rate, serum-dialysate sodium gradient, hemoglobin, phosphate, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker use, erythropoietin dose, and equilibrated Kt/V. Results: The mean age of the patients was 50±13 years; 35% were female. In the fully adjusted models, a decline in vector length (per 50 Ω/m; i.e., increase in volume) was associated with a 6.8 g (95% confidence interval [CI], −0.1 to 13.7) and 2.6 g/m2 (95% CI, −1.2 to 6.3) increase in LVM and LVM index, respectively, and an increase of 15.0 ml (95% CI, 7.5 to 22.4), 7.3 ml (95% CI, 3.0 to 12.7), 7.8 ml (95% CI, 3.0 to 12.7), and −0.9% (95% CI, −3.1 to 1.3) in left ventricular end-diastolic volume, left ventricular end-systolic volume, left ventricular stroke volume, and left ventricular ejection fraction, respectively. The lowest tertile of change in vector length (i.e., greater increase in volume) was associated with greater increases in left ventricular end-diastolic volume and left ventricular stroke volume, versus the highest tertile. There was no evidence of heterogeneity by randomized group. Conclusions: Change in vector length, a bioimpedance-derived proxy of volume status, was inversely associated with indices of LVM and volume measured by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients randomized to conventional or frequent hemodialysis over 12 months.