Mean platelet volume and the association with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality among incident peritoneal dialysis patients

BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2023 Nov 8;23(1):543. doi: 10.1186/s12872-023-03551-x.

Abstract

Background: While mean platelet volume (MPV) is linked to severity and all-cause mortality in patients with sepsis, its association with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in patients treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD) remains unknown.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to estimate the relationship between MPV and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality among patients treated with PD.

Method: We retrospectively collected 1322 patients treated with PD from November 1, 2005 to August 31, 2019. All-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality was identified as the primary outcome. MPV was classified into three categories by means of X-tile software. The correlation between MPV and all-cause mortality was assessed by Cox model. Survival curves were performed by Kaplan-Meier method.

Results: The median follow-up period was 50 months (30-80 months), and a total of 360 deaths were recorded. With respect to all-cause mortality, patients in MVP ≥ 10.2 fL had considerably higher risk of all-cause mortality among three models (HR 0.68, 95%CI 0.56-0.84; HR 0.70, 95%CI 0.56-0.87; HR 0.73, 95%CI 0.59-0.91; respectively). Moreover, patients treated with PD, whose MVP ≥ 10.2 fL, also suffered from significantly higher risk of cardiovascular mortality in model 1, 2, and 3 (HR 0.63, 95%CI 0.46-0.85; HR 0.66, 95%CI 0.48-0.91; HR 0.69, 95%CI 0.50-0.95; respectively).

Conclusions: This study indicates that MPV is independently correlated with both all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in PD.

Keywords: All-cause mortality; Cardiovascular Disease; Cardiovascular mortality; Mean platelet volume; Peritoneal dialysis.

MeSH terms

  • Cardiovascular Diseases*
  • Humans
  • Mean Platelet Volume
  • Peritoneal Dialysis* / adverse effects
  • Proportional Hazards Models
  • Retrospective Studies