Journal of Clinical Trials
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Abstract

Assessment of Malnutrition in End Stage Renal Disease Patients on Hemodialysis

Hisham Mostafa Tawfik

Malnutrition is a common problem and a risk factor of mortality in haemodialysis patients. However, there is no consensus for its assessment.

Objective: To estimate the effect of malnutrition in end stage renal disease patients on hemodialysis.

Patients and methods: The current study is cross sectional retrospective study conducted on 165 end stage renal failure patients on regular hemodialysis, age range: 18-60 years old; 83 male and 82 females with mean age 46.8 ± 17.3 years, recruited from the renal and dialysis unit, Department Of Internal Medicine, Al-Minya University Hospitals, Egypt from 2018 to 2019.

Results: The present study, when adopting the limit of 18.5 kg/m2, the prevalence of malnutrition was 40% the mean BMI was 30.1 ± 4.9 in normal nutrition group and 17.9 ± 0.4 in malnutrition group with significant decrease of body mass index in malnutrition group than normal nutrition group. BMI show positive correlation with (arm circumference, serum albumin, total cholesterol, total protein and URR) in all cases and each group.