<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:sec> <jats:title>Background and Aims</jats:title> <jats:p>nutritional status clearly has a great impact on the prognosis of maintenance hemodialysis patients. Therefore, its management should be a priority and risk screening frequent and easily implemented, based on the biochemical and clinical routine parameters already available. Many tools fit these simple criteria, na...
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:sec> <jats:title>Background and Aims</jats:title> <jats:p>Malnutrition Inflammation score (MIS) is a risk score published in 2001 (Kalantar-Zadeh, 2001) and validated in 2008 (Rambod, 2009). It is associated with a high mortality and morbidity risk in hemodialysis (HD) patients (pts).</jats:p> <jats:p>Currently, HD pts population is composed of much older individuals, sub...