Protein-energy wasting — diagnosis and monitoring

Abstract

One of the main purposes of nutrition in chronic kidney disease is prevention or treatment of proteinenergy wasting (PEW). To diagnose PEW the assessingof patients’ nutritional status is necessary. Severalmethods could be applied, although panel of teststhat can identify PEW was proposed by the expertsin 2008. However, not all patients undergo nutritional status assessment, and therefore diagnosis and appropriate treatment is either delayed or not introduced.Current methods of nutrition status evaluation and recommended diagnostic procedures at different stages of both native and transplanted chronic kidney disease (CKD) are presented in this paper.