Precision Medicine for Nutritional Management in End-Stage Kidney Disease and Transition to Dialysis

Summary: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global public health burden. Dialysis is not only costly but may not be readily available in developing countries. Even in highly developed nations, many patients may prefer to defer or avoid dialysis. Thus, alternative options to dialysis therapy or to complement dialysis are needed urgently and are important objectives in CKD management that could have huge clinical and economic implications globally. The role of nutritional therapy as a strategy to slow CKD progression and uremia was discussed as early as the late 19th and early 20th century, but was only seriously explored in the 1970s.

Source: Seminars in Nephrology - July 1, 2018 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Angela Yee-Moon Wang, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Denis Fouque, Pieter T. Wee, Csaba P. Kovesdy, S. Russ Price, Joel D. Kopple Source Type: research