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A new nutritional risk index for predicting mortality in hemodialysis patients: Nationwide cohort study

BACKGROUND: Protein energy wasting (PEW) is a risk factor for death. However, the cutoff vales for PEW are not optimized for early identification of hemodialysis patients with malnutrition. We evaluated the prognosis of Japanese maintenance hemodialysis patients using nutritional indices optimized f...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Kanda, Eiichiro, Kato, Akihiko, Masakane, Ikuto, Kanno, Yoshihiko
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6438476/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30921398
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214524
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