Malnutrition-Inflammation Score for risk stratification of patients with CKD: Is it the promised gold standard? Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 354-355

  Rambod, Mehdi ^a   Kovesdy, Csaba P ^b,c   Kalantar Zadeh, Kamyar ^a,d  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kidney disease wasting; Malnutrition Inflammation Score; Malnutrition inflammation cachexia syndrome; Protein energy wasting; Reverse epidemiology

Indexed keywords

CACHEXIA; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GERIATRIC NUTRITIONAL RISK INDEX; HEMODIALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; JAPANESE; MALNUTRITION INFLAMMATION CACHEXIA SYNDROME; MALNUTRITION INFLAMMATION SCORE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; STANDARD;

EID: 46249131002     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0834     Document Type: Note

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