Aspectos nutricionales en diálisis

Abstract

Patients with chronic kidney insufficiency usually suffer malnutrition, fundamentally once the dialysis has been initiated, as factors pertaining to the dialysis technique are added to other previously existing factors. Malnutrition implies a higher risk of global morbidity-mortality, fundamentally of a cardiovascular character. Factors such as the quality of the dialysis, the loss of nutrients and more recently the existence of a chronic underlying inflammatory reaction (bio-incompatibility), contribute to the development of malnutrition. An early nutritional intervention that is proportional to the patient's individual situation becomes necessary