Nutrition and Chronic Kidney Disease
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2017) | Viewed by 372133
Special Issue Editors
Interests: identification; prevention and treatment of nutritional; metabolic; hormonal; cardiovascular and other alterations in chronic kidney disease patients that contribute to premature aging and increased morbimortality
Interests: identification; prevention and treatment of nutritional; metabolic; hormonal; cardiovascular and other alterations in chronic kidney disease patients that contribute to premature aging and increased morbimortality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutritional and metabolic disorders may promote initiation and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), a metabolic disease affecting virtually all aspects of nutrition and metabolism, especially when CKD progresses to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Changes in intake (and losses) of essential and non-essential nutrients and disturbances of metabolic and hormonal pathways promote catabolism and alter the requirements of nutrients in CKD, resulting in poor nutritional status characterized by protein-energy wasting (PEW), inflammation and other disorders. Poor nutritional status and specific nutrient abnormalities (deficiencies or abnormal abundance of, e.g., electrolytes and water) together with other highly prevalent conditions in CKD, such as inflammation, CKD-mineral bone disorders, and the uremic milieu contribute to sarcopenia, frailty, immune dysfunction, premature vascular ageing, cardiovascular disease, and other mortality-predictive conditions.
Although the literature in this field is expanding rapidly, our knowledge about the underlying mechanisms, and appropriate methods for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of nutritional disorders in CKD, are far from complete and further studies are highly warranted. You are invited to submit proposals for manuscripts that fit the objectives of this Special Issue.
The objective of this proposed Special Issue on “Nutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease” is to publish selected papers detailing specific aspects of nutrition in chronic kidney disease, such as the analyses of nutritional issues in CKD, such as contributions addressing exploring pathways of nutritional disorders, characterization of nutritional disorders, nutrient intake and losses, implications of nutritional disorders, and other issues affecting nutrition in patients with CKD.
Thus, the key idea is to accomplish, through this Special Issue, a sample of some of the nutritional challenges in patients with chronic kidney disease in order to improve the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of nutritional disorders in this group of patients.
Dr. Peter Stenvinkel
Dr. Bengt Lindholm
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Chronic kidney disease
- Dialysis
- Nutritional status
- Nutrients
- Protein and Energy Intake
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