Publications by authors named "Shahram Ahmadzadeh"
Background: The commonly employed medication reconciliation process leaves room for mismanagement of medications in the complex end-stage renal disease patient population.
Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement and evaluate a multidisciplinary education and feedback intervention designed to improve self-management for adults with end-stage renal disease.
Methods: A pre-post, same subject repeated measures design was used to evaluate the intervention.
Background: The efficacy of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) supplementation versus vitamin D receptor activators for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 3 or 4 and vitamin D deficiency is unclear.
Study Design: Randomized controlled trial.
Setting & Participants: 80 patients with CKD stages 3 or 4, 25(OH)D level <30 ng/mL, and SHPT in a single medical center.
Background And Objectives: Assessments of iron stores by serum iron saturation ratio (ISAT) and ferritin are used to direct anemia therapy in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and are associated with clinical outcomes in patients on dialysis. The association of ISAT and ferritin with outcomes in patients with nondialysis-dependent CKD (NDD-CKD) has not been studied.
Design, Setting, Participants, & Measurements: All-cause mortality and progression of CKD [slopes of estimated GFR (eGFR)] were examined in 453 men with NDD-CKD.
Background: Treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) with activated vitamin D analogues is associated with better survival in patients receiving dialysis. It is unclear whether such a benefit is present in patients with predialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Methods: We examined the association of oral calcitriol treatment with mortality and the incidence of dialysis in 520 male US veterans (mean [SD] age, 69.
Background And Objectives: Obesity is associated with secondary hyperparathyroidism in the general population. The objective of this study is to explore whether the same association is present in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Design, Setting, Participants & Measurements: Linear regression models were used to examine the association between intact parathyroid hormone level and body mass index in 496 male US veterans (age 69.