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Nutritional risk assessment in hemodialysis patients: A comparative analysis of...
Aguiar, L; Martins, VS; Pinto, I; Papoila, A; Dias, C; Figueiredo, R; Pereira, J; Ramiao, I; Velez, B; Adragao, T; Borges, Nuno; Almeida, E; Garrido, JBackground and aims: Nutritional status 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, when the use of more comprehensive tools is not possible. Many tools fit these simple criteria, namely the modified creatini...
Does malnutrition inflammation score maintains its predictive risk assessment i...
Martins, VS; Adragao, T; Aguiar, L; Dias, C; Lourenco, P; Figueiredo, R; Pascoal, T; Pereira, J; Pinheiro, T; Ramiao, I; Velez, B; Papoila, AL; Pinto, I<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...