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Polypharmacy in Chronic Kidney Disease: Implication for Health-Related Quality of Life and Clinical Outcomes

Key takeaways

People with chronic kidney disease often take many medicines at once, which doctors call polypharmacy. This paper looks at how taking a lot of pills relates to quality of life and to health outcomes in kidney disease. It reports on links seen in patients, not a test where treatment was assigned, so it cannot prove the pill count itself causes worse outcomes. The posted record has no abstract, so the size of the group and the exact findings are not available here.

Who did this work

Jai Dev (Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University) · Shri Krishan (Syneos Health (India)) · Ritu Mishra (Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-04
https://doi.org/10.25258/ijddt.16.5.40