Zhang J, Lu X, Wang S, et al. - In patients receiving hemodialysis (HD), a worse erythropoietin (EPO) responsiveness can be predicted by a higher neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR) level (a cheaper method).

• This analysis involved 299 HD patients to unveil the link between NLR and platelet lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and EPO responsiveness in this patient population.

• EPO responsiveness was found to be positively associated with ferritin and negatively associated with serum albumin, lymphocytes, and hemoglobin.

• On multivariate linear regression, a correlation with a higher erythropoiesis resistance index was shown by only NLR but not PLR.