The Dialysis patients at risk of cardiac death

Dialysis patients face a higher risk for sudden cardiac death but physicians are still unclear as to why these deaths happen. Rod Passman, a researcher from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in the US, is working on how to avoid sudden cardiac death among this rapidly growing patient population. "Dialysis patients have extraordinarily high humanity rates with cardiac disease accounting for 43 per cent of deaths in this population," said Passman. "Data indicates that about 27 per cent of the mortality is due to sudden cardiac death," said Passman, associate professor of cardiology at the school of medicine.

"The lack of research complicates clinicians' capability to understand the connection between renal disease and cardiovascular disease. The medical community needs to stop neglect this community of patients because it is a rapidly growing group," said Passman. "Risk of cardiac capture in dialysis patients is connected to age and dialysis duration," said Passman, according to a Feinberg School of Medicine release. "A study by the United States Renal Disease Data System (USRDS) indicate longer dialysis duration is linked with higher mortality," he said. "This data also leads us to believe that end stage renal disease is a primary advocate of cardiac disease and enlarged risk for sudden cardiac death," said Passman.

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