DIETary Intake, Death and Hospitalization in Adult With End-stage Kidney Disease Treated With HemoDialysis (DIET-HD) Study

Giovanni Strippoli

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diet Habit; End Stage Renal Disease

Treatments: Other: dietary intake of omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03125265

DIET-HD study

Details and patient eligibility

About

The DIETary intake, death and hospitalisation in adults with end-stage kidney disease treated with HaemoDialysis (DIET-HD) study is a multinational prospective cohort study designed to evaluate the association between nutrition and dietary patterns and health outcomes in prevalent adult haemodialysis patients in Europe and South America.

Enrollment: 9,757 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• End-stage kidney disease
• Long-term haemodialysis for at least the previous 90 days
• 18 years or older
• Treating team agrees to the patient's involvement in the study
• Participant willing to provide written and informed consent.-

Exclusion criteria

• significant neurocognitive disability or medical comorbidity that would preclude them from understanding the dietary questionnaire even if assisted
• a life expectancy less than 6 months according to their treating physician
• planned kidney transplantation within 6 months of baseline