Angela Rivera

2 months ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Juan Castillo |Angela Rivera |Peter Rutherford |Jasmin Vesga

1 Introduction Malnutrition and inflammation are common in patients on chronic dialysis and are associated with adverse clinical outcomes [1, 2]. Several factors are interrelated within these two conditions, configuring a complex syndrome that can be expressed clinically in various ways, one of them being hypoalbuminemia [3, 4]. The term protein-energy wasting (PEW) has been coined to denote a loss of body protein mass and fuel reserves in patients with chronic kidney disease [5].