Frailty and Cognitive Impairment in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Kidney disease patients with frailty face steeper cognitive decline, suggesting need for earlier cognitive screening in this population.
This SR+MA demonstrates a robust association between frailty and cognitive decline in chronic kidney disease, quantifying the excess risk and identifying patient characteristics that amplify cognitive vulnerability in this already-compromised population. The findings support routine frailty and cognitive screening in CKD care, with implications for treatment planning, dialysis decisions, and transplant candidacy evaluation.
What the study was
- Study design
- Systematic review and meta-analysis
- Category
- Diagnostics
- Maturity
- Validated
- Journal
- J Nurs Scholarsh
Why it surfaced
SR+MA design; high prevalence of frailty-CKD-cognitive triad in aging populations; direct clinical management implications for a large patient group; nursing scholarship journal with broad clinical readership.
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