Diabetes, dialysis, and nutrition care interaction.

Diabetes is present in the majority of patients who dialyze. If comprehensive care is to be delivered, the enormity of diabetes and its non-renal complications need to be appreciated. These influences on the treatment process, medical nutrition therapy, and glycemic control all interact with one another to determine dialysis adequacy, nutritional status, and degree of glycemic control.

Body weight estimation in chronic kidney disease: results of a practitioner survey.

Purpose: To survey the body weight estimation practices of renal dietitians in the United States in preparation for the Council on Renal Nutrition of the National Kidney Foundation symposium addressing this topic.

Objectives: To obtain quantitative and qualitative data on body weight estimation clinical practices of renal dietitians through the use of a forced-choice and open-ended survey format, and to assess the impact of the variation of body weight estimation practices on the determination of caloric, protein, and other nutritional parameters for different chronic kidney disease stages 1-5.

Methods: A survey was developed by one renal dietitian with input from a cohort of 12 nationally representative renal dietitians.