Introduction:
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in India is 17.2% and nearly 2.75 lakhs patients are on MHD. Malnutrition is an enormous problem and a major contributor to morbidity and mortality across the globe.
Objective : To look at the prevalence of malnutrition and sarcopenia in a cohort with MHD at below poverty line.
Methods:
Materials and Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 838 CKD patients from free-standing charity hemo-dialysis (HD) units across Tamilnadu, India. Dietary recall for 3 days, anthropometry, body composition (BCM), Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), and their biochemical parameters were used for Nutritional Assessment.
Results:
Results showed highly significant differences between the baseline and follow up measures of the lean tissue mass(LTM), Lean tissue index(LTI), Adipose tissue mass (ATM),fat tissue mass(FTM), Fat tissue index(FTI) as in table 1.
Table 1 . Body Composition Analysis – Longitudinal assessment
Conclusions:
The study showed sarcopenia nutritional status in MHD. A concerted effort should be put in to tackle this to improve the outcome of the problem.
I have no potential conflict of interest to disclose.
I did not use generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process.