Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation • Vol 39 • No Supplement_1
#1122 Anaemia in CKD and cardiovascular risk; all cut from the same cloth?
May 2024 • Lisa Le Gall, Jérôme Harambat, Christian Combe, Natália Alencar de Pinho, Bénédicte Stengel, Céline Lange, Karen Leffondré, Mathilde Prezelin‐Reydit
Abstract Background and Aims Anaemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been repeatedly associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, but most studies have not investigated its longitudinal association by sex and age. Our aim was to study the association between haemoglobin (Hb) current value and the hazard of major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) in specific subgroups of CKD patients defined by age and sex. Because erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA) are incriminated to modify the eff…