Frailty Assessment Among Kidney Transplant Candidates (Mar-Kid)

Parc de Salut Mar

Status: Completed

Conditions: Kidney Transplant; Complications; Frailty

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04811417

2018/7798/I

Details and patient eligibility

About

Frailty is common among chronic kidney disease patients who are on the kidney transplant (KT) waiting list.

The aim of this study is to assess frailty according to different frailty tools among KT candidates and to establish potential biomarkers of frailty.

Full description

This is an observational study where KT candidates will be assessed for frailty according to:

• Frailty Fried Phenotype and
• FRAIL scale

Sociodemographics and clinical variables will be collected and serum samples will be obtained in order to implement further studies regarding biomarkers of frailty..

Enrollment: 500 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• KT candidates accepted for the KT waiting list

Exclusion criteria

• No willing for participating
• Difficulty in understanding Spanish or English