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Etiology of the Protein-Energy Wasting Syndrome in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Consensus Statement From the International Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism (ISRNM)

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This consensus statement of current knowledge on the etiology of PEW syndrome in CKD is provided to increase awareness, identify research needs, and provide the basis for future work to understand therapies and consequences of Pew.
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This article is published in Journal of Renal Nutrition.The article was published on 2013-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 628 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wasting & Kidney disease.

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Strategies to improve physical activity by exercise training in patients with chronic kidney disease.

TL;DR: Exercise training may improve physical activity and prevent muscle loss in patients with chronic kidney disease and introduce exercise training to these patients may be clinically beneficial by reducing their mortality rates.
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Is High-Volume Online Hemodiafiltration Associated With Malnutrition?

TL;DR: Among patients with higher CV, serum albumin levels maintained more stability during the observational period, demonstrating that higher convective clearances are not associated with malnutrition due to possible loss of nutrients with ultrafiltration.
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Cortisol levels are associated with mortality risk in hemodialysis patients.

TL;DR: High serum concentrations of cortisol were associated with a state of inflammation and independently identified a subgroup of chronic hemodialysis patients at a high mortality risk.
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The Impact of Frailty on Prognosis in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study.

TL;DR: In this article, negative binomial regression was used to estimate the impact of frailty on the incidence of emergency visits, hospitalizations, acute cardiovascular events, and falls within a year.
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Multiple types of skeletal muscle atrophy involve a common program of changes in gene expression

TL;DR: Different types of skeletal muscle atrophy share a common transcriptional program that is activated in many systemic diseases including diabetes, cancer, and renal failure, according to cDNA microarrays.
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Cytokines and major depression.

TL;DR: Although the central effects of proinflammatory cytokines appear to be able to account for most of the symptoms occurring in depression, it remains to be established whether cytokines play a causal role in depressive illness or represent epiphenomena without major significance.
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