A new nutritional risk index for predicting mortality in hemodialysis patients: Nationwide cohort study

Background Protein energy wasting (PEW) is a risk factor for death. However, the cutoff vales for PEW are not optimized for early identification of hemodialysis patients with malnutrition. We evaluated the prognosis of Japanese maintenance hemodialysis patients using nutritional indices optimized for them. Materials and methods We analyzed data from a nation-wide prospective cohort study of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy Renal Data...