Abstract
Malnutrition has a negative impact on quality of life and survival in renal transplant recipients (RTR). Therefore, malnutrition detection is important in RTR, but this may be hampered by concomitant presence of weight gain and overweight. Recently, the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) developed a set of diagnostic criteria for malnutrition. We aimed to assess the prevalence of malnutrition according to the GLIM criteria and the distribution of phenotypic criteria in RTR. Additionally, we examined the potential value of 24-h urinary creatinine excretion rate (CER) as alternative measure for the criterion reduced muscle mass.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3522-3530 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Clinical Nutrition |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 8 Dec 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 May 2021 |
Keywords
- malnutrition
- renal transplantation
- global leadership initiative on malnutrition (glim)
- body composition
- muscle mass