The invention is directed to a method of identifying a patient undergoing periodic
hemodialysis treatments at
increased risk for death that includes determining at least one of the patient's clinical or biochemical parameters, consisting of serum
bicarbonate concentration level, serum
potassium concentration level, serum
calcium concentration level,
hemoglobin concentration level, serum
phosphorus concentration level, neutrophil to
lymphocyte ratio, equilibrated normalized
protein catabolic rate (enPCR), equilibrated fractional clearance of total
body water by
dialysis and residual
kidney function (eKdrt / V), EPO resistance index,
transferrin saturation index, serum
ferritin concentration level, serum
creatinine concentration level,
platelet count, Aspartat-Aminotransferase level, and Alanin-Aminotransferase level at periodic
hemodialysis treatments, and identifying a patient as having an
increased risk for death if the patient has a significant change in the rate of change of at least one of the patient's clinical or biochemical parameters. The invention is also directed to a method of identifying an increased mortality
risk factor for a patient undergoing periodic
hemodialysis treatment. The method includes analyzing data of deceased patients that were previously undergoing periodic hemodialysis treatments by performing a longitudinal analysis backwards in time of changes in a clinical or biochemical parameter the patients, and identifying a significant change in the rate of decline or the
rate of increase in a clinical or biochemical parameter before death of the patients.