Jalal Azmandian

Associate Professor of Nephrology, Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, Afzalipour Hospital & Physiology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

[ 1 ] - Risk Stratification of Hemodialysis Patients with Protein-Energy Wasting Using Hand Grip Strength and Malnutrition-Inflammation Score: are Two Indices Better than One?

Background: We aimed to detect whether risk stratification of hemodialysis (HD) patients with a combination of both malnutrition-inflammation score (MIS) and hand grip strength (HGS) indices identified more precisely patients at increased risk of protein-energy wasting (PEW). Methods: This was a deductive-analytical cross-sectional study. We determined the HGS...