Predicting Mortality In Kidney Disease A New Nutritional Risk Index - Professor Eiichiro Kanda

According to the World Health Organisation, between 5 and 10 million people die globally of kidney disease each year. There has been an important shift towards recognising chronic kidney disease (CKD) as a major public health problem that requires early management. Protein energy wasting is a maladaptive metabolic state resulting in severe malnutrition and one of the major causes of CKD-related deaths. Professor Eiichiro Kanda at Kawasaki Medical School and his colleagues have established a risk index that predicts the patients undergoing haemodialysis who are at most risk for developing protein energy wasting and, potentially, death.