Effects of a mobile application on improving self-management of adult patients receiving peritoneal dialysis: A randomized controlled trial.

Aim: This study aimed to develop a mobile application for improving self-management and to evaluate its effects in adult patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD).

Methods: This randomized controlled trial was registered with the Korean Clinical Research Information Service Registry (KCT0007267) and conducted at a tertiary hospital. A self-management mobile application (SMA) was developed based on social cognitive theory and the ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) model.

Serum VEGF-D level is correlated with renal dysfunction and proteinuria in patients with diabetic chronic kidney disease.

Biomarkers associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) may play a crucial role in the early diagnosis of diabetic kidney disease. However, there have been few reports published on serum vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEGF)-D in patients with diabetic CKD. We divided patients with diabetic CKD into two groups: CKD 3-4 and CKD 5.

Serum nitric oxide level correlates with serum brain natriuretic peptide and whole blood viscosity in hemodialysis patients.

Background: Nitric oxide (NO) is tonically synthesized by the vascular endothelium and known as a marker of vasodilatation and blood flow. As NO has a critical role in hemodynamics, NO may be associated with other hemodynamics-related factors including atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and whole blood viscosity (WBV). It has been reported that serum NO level increased in patients undergoing hemodialysis.

Changes in whole blood viscosity during hemodialysis and mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease.

Whole blood viscosity (WBV) plays a role in hemorheology and is determined by many factors such as red blood cell factors, plasma protein and blood volume. As WBV changes during hemodialysis, mortality may be due to changes in WBV in patients on hemodialysis. However, there are few prospective data on the relationship between changes in WBV and overall mortality in dialysis patients.