title: Growth rates in pediatric dialysis patients and renal transplant recipients.
abstract: We compared growth rates by modality over a 6- to 14-month period in 1,302 US pediatric end-stage renal disese (ESRD) patients treated during 1990. Modality comparisons were adjusted for age, sex, race, ethnicity, and ESRD duration using linear regression models by age group (0.5 to 4 years, 5 to 9 years, 10 to 14 years, and 15 to 18 years). Growth rates were higher in young children receiving a transplant compared with those receiving dialysis (ages 0.5 to 4 years, delta = 3.1 cm/yr v continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis [CCPD], P < 0.01; ages 5 to 9 years, delta = 2.0 to 2.6 cm/yr v CCPD, chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), and hemodialysis, P < 0.01). In contrast, growth rates in older children were not statistically different when comparing transplantation with each dialysis modality. For most age groups of transplant recipients, we observed faster growth with alternate-day versus daily steroids that was not fully explained by differences in allograft function. Younger patients (<15 years) grew at comparable rates with each dialysis modality, while older CAPD patients grew faster compared with hemodialysis or CCPD patients (P < 0.02). There was no substantial pubertal growth spurt in transplant or dialysis patients. This national US study of pediatric growth rates with dialysis and transplantation shows differences in growth by modality that vary by age group.
authors.affiliation: United States Renal Data System Coordinating Center and Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48103, USA. usrds@umich.edu
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Turenne
authors.forename: F K
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Port
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Strawderman
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Ettenger
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Alexander
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Lewy
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: L Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Agodoa
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Held
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D010531:Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory; D006435:Renal Dialysis