Taoyuan General Hospital Reports Findings in End Stage Kidney Disease (The risk factors of the occurrence of inguinal hernia in ESRD patients receiving dialysis treatment: An observational study using national health insurance research database): Kidney Diseases and Conditions – End Stage Kidney Disease

2023 JAN 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Information Technology Business Daily -- New research on Kidney Diseases and Conditions - End Stage Kidney Disease is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Taoyuan, Taiwan, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “With the quickly growing population of patients receiving dialysis treatment in Taiwan in recent years, concerns about whether more incidence of inguinal hernia exists in dialysis patients are increasing. In Taiwan, peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis (HD) are the 2 most common dialysis types.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Taoyuan General Hospital, “Therefore, the relationship between dialysis type and inguinal hernia occurrence needs to be evaluated and compared. Our retrospective cohort study included a study population total of 3891 patients diagnosed with end stage renal disease (ESRD) under the HD or PD procedure from 2001 to 2009 from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database. Also, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 9th Revision codes were used to identify ESRD and hernia occurrence. Cox proportional-hazards regression model was applied to measure the risk factors to the hernia occurrence. During the follow-up periods of 3 years, the number of hernia occurrences was 44 (1.13%), 1 (0.03%), and 8 (0.21%) with inguinal, femoral, and ventral hernias, respectively. Only the dialysis type revealed significantly increased hernia risk because PD would increase hernia risk 7 times (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] = 6.98, 95% CI = 3.59-13.25) than HD. If the patients received PD and shifted to HD later, the risk of hernia was 5 times (aHR = 4.98, 95% CI = 2.29-10.85) than patients with HD. Patients with ESRD receiving PD or PD-HD shift were risk factors of inguinal hernia occurrence.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The results may help clinicians increase the alert of possible risk factors and complications at the beginning of dialysis treatment in patients with ESRD.”

For more information on this research see: The risk factors of the occurrence of inguinal hernia in ESRD patients receiving dialysis treatment: An observational study using national health insurance research database. Medicine, 2022;101(49). Medicine can be contacted at: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Two Commerce Sq, 2001 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Medicine - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/medicine/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jui-Ming Liu, Dept. of Urology, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan. Additional authors for this research include Pin-Han Chiu, Ming-Li Hsieh, Wei-Tang Kao, Kai-Jie Yu, See-Tong Pang and Po-Hung Lin.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000031794. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher of the journal Medicine can be contacted at: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Two Commerce Sq, 2001 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA.

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