[Nutritional condition in chronic renal failure patients treated by hemodialysis in Amazonas].

Background: Chronic renal failure patients frequently show malnourishment.

Objective: The food intake and the nutritional status of 165 chronic renal failure patients on maintenance hemodialysis were studied.

Methods: Nutritional status of 165 patients were studied by anthropometry, biochemical measurements, protein nitrogen appearance rate (PNA) and a average food intake.