K. Kalantar-Zadeh

Malnutrition in Maintenance Dialysis: From Metabolic Disorder to Multisystem Complications

Malnutrition and protein-energy wasting (PEW) are closely related yet distinct clinical entities. While malnutrition broadly refers to nutritional deficits arising primarily from inadequate dietary intake, PEW is a complex syndrome specific to chronic kidney disease characterized by the progressive loss of body protein...