Active clinical trials for "Renal Insufficiency, Chronic"

Nondipping blood pressure (BP) pattern is a potential independent risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD). Whether bedtime administration of potassium losartan has benefit for anti-hypertension and the prognosis of CKD patients is not clear. Patients with nondipping BP pattern or dipping BP pattern were enrolled in this study, and the patients with nondipping BP pattern were randomly divided into two groups and treated with bedtime or awakening doses of potassium losartan.

This is a randomized, parallel study that will be conducted on pediatric patients with CKD.

Oxidative stress and inflammation are correlated with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), in a way that they bring several harms to patients, including an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality. Adjuvant therapeutic options such as bioactive compounds present in some foods seem to mitigate inflammation. Turmeric and propolis are foods that have compounds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory capacity, as they promote the activation of nuclear erythroid transcription factor 2 (Nrf2 - responsible for the synthesis of antioxidant enzymes) and inhibit the activity of nuclear factor Kappa B (NF-κB - which increases the synthesis of inflammatory cytokines). This work aims to evaluate the effects of supplementation of associated propolis and turmeric microcapsules on inflammatory markers in patients with CKD undergoing hemodialysis (HD).

Randomized clinical trial focusing on the effect of tailored information on Covid-19 for patients with chronic kidney disease stage 5 on health literacy, anxiety and self-perceived health.

This randomized controlled trial (RCT) will evaluate if PRO-based follow-up is at least as effective as usual outpatient follow-up in managing decline in renal function and maintaining patients' quality of life. Furthermore, we intend to characterize the target patient group that is suitable for PRO-based follow up in a group of patients suffering from renal insufficiency.

Some patients who have multiple long-term health conditions have significant challenges accessing needed services despite available primary care and social services resources. Patient navigation programs may help those with complex health conditions improve their care and outcomes and if delivered by community health navigators (CHNs) who have close community ties, these programs have the potential to reduce barriers to care and increase access to coordinated, person-centred care. The ENCOMPASS program aims to improve the care and health outcomes for high-risk patients by linking patients with chronic disease with a CHN to help them navigate the health system, facilitate communication between patients and providers, improve patients' understanding of their conditions and treatment plans, and support patients in their self-management. In Canada, patient navigation programs have not been well studied or broadly implemented in patients with chronic disease, making a comprehensive evaluation of ENCOMPASS important. This program has great potential to improve care for patients with chronic diseases in primary care.

Several drugs have been labeled as guideline-directed-medical therapies (GDMT) to improve overall health outcomes and slow the progression of disease in patients with heart failure (HF). Although scientific trials have deemed these drugs to be successful, many HF patients have been unable to either get started on the appropriate drug regimens or be optimized on the doses required to show substantial benefit, particularly in those who also suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD). This is largely due to the current health care delivery model that requires a primary care clinician or general internist to refer patients to heart failure specialists and nephrologists. The specialty care itself then requires even more coordination resulting in patients getting lost to follow-up, physicians losing track of recommendations from different clinics, and too many separate electronic medical documentations to consolidate prior to deciding on what medication is appropriate at one thirty-minute outpatient visit. This study plans to create a new, virtual cardio-renal multidisciplinary team including a heart failure specialist and nephrologist to ease the coordination of care and consequently show a better implementation of GDMT in patients with HF and CKD when comparing those rates to the traditional referral-based way that these medications get prescribed.

A randomized control trial to test the effect of a mobile app-based educational program for Chronic Kidney Disease patients.

The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a peer support coaching intervention to improve activated chronic illness self-management versus an attention control group in 225 adolescents and young adults with childhood onset chronic conditions.

Some patients living with multiple long-term health conditions have difficulty accessing the services they need, despite available primary care and community resources. Patient navigation programs may help those with complex health conditions to improve their care and outcomes. Community health navigators (CHNs) are community members who help guide patients through the health care system. CHNs are not health professionals like a doctor or nurse, but they are specially trained to help patients get the most out of their health care and connect them to resources. The ENCOMPASS program of research evaluates a patient navigation program that connects patients living with long-term health conditions to CHNs. To understand if the CHN program can be scaled to a provincial level, the ENCOMPASS program of research is expanding to select primary care settings across Alberta. This study implements and evaluates the CHN program at Edmonton Oliver Primary Care Network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.