Kidney Disease
New kidney disease study results reported from M. Rambod et al
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, August 18th, 2008
According to recent research from the United States, "Traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors including hyperlipidemia and obesity are paradoxically associated with improved survival in individuals with advanced chronic kidney disease. Such paradoxes underscore the important role of malnutrition-inflammation-cachexia syndrome in chronic kidney disease mortality and highlight the urgent need for comprehensive but practical nutritional assessment tools."
"In this Practice Point commentary, Rambod and colleagues discuss a recent paper by Yamada et al. that used the Malnutrition-Inflammation Score ( MIS) as the 'reference standard' to validate five simplified...
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