Urea to creatinine ratio: A forgotten marker of poor nutritional state in patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment

Aging Male

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 49-53

  Tufan, Fatih ^a   Yildiz, Abdülmecit ^b   Dogan, Ibrahim ^c   Yildiz, Demet ^a   Sevinir, Şeniz ^a  

^a Sevket Yilmaz Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Cekirge State Hospital   (Turkey)

^c Dept of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Elderly; Hemodialysis; Malnutrition; Urea creatinine ratio

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; UREA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; UREA CREATININE RATIO; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADULT; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CREATININE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84924359786     PISSN: 13685538     EISSN: 14730790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13685538.2014.908281     Document Type: Article

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