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## Background & aims: The controlling nutritional status (conut) score was designed to assess the immune-nutritional status in patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of the conut score at the commencement of peritoneal dialysis (pd) for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease (cvd), and technique failure. ## Methods: This is a strobe-compliant, retrospective, observational, single center study. a total of 252 patients with end stage renal disease initially undergoing pd were enrolled in the study. baseline data were collected from the third affiliated hospital of soochow university peritoneal dialysis database. the primary outcome during follow-up was all-cause mortality. the secondary outcomes were cvd and technique failure. univariate and multivariate cox regression analyses were performed to estimate the association between confounding factors and outcomes. the area under the curve represented the test discriminative power of conut score and relevant clinical parameters. the kaplan-meier curve was used to compare the outcomes of the patients according to the cut-off conut score. ## Results: During a median follow-up period of 1.9 years, 35 pa

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Author

Hua Zhou; Wenying Chao; Li Cui; Min Li; Yun Zou; Min Yang

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)