β-Blocker Use and Risk of Mortality in Heart Failure Patients Initiating Maintenance Dialysis

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RATIONAL & OBJECTIVE: Beta-blockers are recommended for patients with heart failure (HF) but their benefit in the dialysis population is uncertain. Beta-blockers are heterogeneous, including with respect to their removal by hemodialysis. We sought to evaluate whether β-blocker use and their dialyzability characteristics were associated with early mortality among patients with chronic kidney disease with HF who transitioned to dialysis.

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study.

SETTING & PARTICIPANTS: Adults patients with chronic kidney disease (aged≥18 years) and HF who initiated either hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis during January 1, 2007, to June 30, 2016, within an integrated health system were included.

EXPOSURES: Patients were considered treated with β-blockers if they had a quantity of drug dispensed covering the dialysis transition date.

OUTCOMES: All-cause mortality within 6 months and 1 year or hospitalization within 6 months after transition to maintenance dialysis.

ANALYTICAL APPROACH: Inverse probability of treatment weights using propensity scores was used to balance covariates between treatment groups. Cox proportional hazard analysis and logistic regression were used to investigate the association between β-blocker use and study outcomes.

RESULTS: 3,503 patients were included in the study. There were 2,115 (60.4%) patients using β-blockers at transition. Compared with nonusers, the HR for all-cause mortality within 6 months was 0.79 (95% CI, 0.65-0.94) among users of any β-blocker and 0.68 (95% CI, 0.53-0.88) among users of metoprolol at transition. There were no observed differences in all-cause or cardiovascular-related hospitalization.

LIMITATIONS: The observational nature of our study could not fully account for residual confounding.

CONCLUSIONS: Beta-blockers were associated with a lower rate of mortality among incident hemodialysis patients with HF. Similar associations were not observed for hospitalizations within the first 6 months following transition to dialysis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:77

Enthalten in:

American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation - 77(2021), 5 vom: 15. Mai, Seite 704-712

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhou, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Sim, John J [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Jiaxiao [VerfasserIn]
Shaw, Sally F [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Ming-Sum [VerfasserIn]
Neyer, Jonathan R [VerfasserIn]
Kovesdy, Csaba P [VerfasserIn]
Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar [VerfasserIn]
Jacobsen, Steven J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

β-blocker
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Adrenergic beta-Antagonists
Atenolol
Bisoprolol
Carvedilol
Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
Dialysis initiation
Dialyzability
Ejection fraction (EF)
End-stage renal disease (ESRD)
GEB06NHM23
Heart failure (HF)
Hospitalization
Journal Article
Labetalol
Metoprolol
Mortality
Nadolol
Observational Study
Propranolol
R5H8897N95
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Survival
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Date Completed 10.05.2021

Date Revised 10.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1053/j.ajkd.2020.07.023

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315806559