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Nutritional Status of Maintenance Dialysis Patients: Low Lean Body Mass Index and Obesity Are Common, Protein-Energy Wasting Is Uncommon

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Maintenance dialysis patients are at increased risk of abnormal nutritional status due to numerous causative factors, both nutritional and non-nutritional. The present study assessed the current prevalence of protein-energy wasting, low lean body mass index and obesity in mainte...

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Autores principales: Koefoed, Mette, Kromann, Charles Boy, Juliussen, Sophie Ryberg, Hvidtfeldt, Danni, Ekelund, Bo, Frandsen, Niels Erik, Marckmann, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4771706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26919440
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150012