Appropriate assessment of body composition to identify haemodialysis patients at risk

Appropriate assessment of body composition to identify haemodialysis patients at risk

Introduction: Circumstances such as gender, age, diabetes mellitus (DM) and renal failure impact on the body composition of patients. However, we use nutritional parameters such as lean and fat tissue with reference values from healthy subjects to assess the nutritional status of haemodialysis (HD)...

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Main Authors: Sandra Castellano, Inés Palomares, Ulrich Moissl, Paul Chamney, Diana Carretero, Antonio Crespo, Camilo Morente, Laura Ribera, Peter Wabel, Rosa Ramos, José Ignacio Merello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-05-01
Series:Nefrología (English Edition)
Subjects:
Mortality
Risk
Haemodialysis
Lean tissue index
Fluid overload
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2013251416300426

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