APPETITE PREDICTS INTAKE AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN PATIENTS RECEIVING PERITONEAL DIALYSIS.

Background: Sub-optimal nutrition status is common amongst patients receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD) and leads to poor clinical outcome. This population experiences multi-factorial challenges to achieving optimal nutritional status, particularly driven by inadequate intake.

Objectives: The aim of this investigation was to identify factors associated with inadequate protein intake and sub-optimal nutritional status in patients undergoing PD.

Nutrition care for renal transplant recipients: an evaluation of service delivery and outcomes.

Background: Weight gain post-renal transplantation is common. Recommendations from recent guidelines include providing structured nutrition care to target risk factors for chronic disease in the early post-transplant period.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the nutrition care provided to renal transplant recipients following implementation of a dietetic model of care and to identify predictors of weight change up to one year post-transplant.

Guideline use: a survey of dietitians working with adult kidney transplant recipients.

Aim:   To establish current service provision as well as barriers and enablers to guideline implementation in the Nutritional Management of Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTR).

Methods:   Fifteen primary renal transplant centres (15/17; 88% response rate) and 21 secondary renal transplant centres (21/24; 88% response rate) responded to an online survey addressing key questions investigating their current practice in the nutritional management of adult KTR.

Results:   Referral from primary to secondary sites was limited with only two sites (9%) routinely receiving referrals.

Evaluation of dietetic advice for modification of cardiovascular disease risk factors in renal transplant recipients.

Objective: To investigate the effect of dietitian involvement in a multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention comparing risk factor modification for cardiovascular disease with standard posttransplant care in renal transplant recipients (RTR) with abnormal glucose tolerance (AGT).

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Hospital outpatient department.

Higher levels of physical activity are associated with a lower risk of abnormal glucose tolerance in renal transplant recipients.

Objective: We investigated and compared diets and physical activity levels of renal transplant recipients (RTRs) with normal glucose tolerance (NGT) and abnormal glucose tolerance (AGT), and we identified clinical risk factors for AGT.

Design: This study was cross-sectional and observational.

Setting: This study took place in a hospital's renal outpatient department.