Nutritional evaluation of stage 5 chronic kidney disease patients on dialysis Avaliação nutricional de pacientes portadores de doença renal crônica estágio 5 em diálise
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Patients with chronic kidney failure undergoing dialysis have high prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition. There is still no uniform method for assessing these patients' nutritional status. It is recommended that a set of subjective and objective methods should be appl...
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Language: | English |
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Associação Paulista de Medicina
2012-01-01
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Series: | São Paulo Medical Journal |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802012000600006 |