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A call to action on World Kidney Day, 8 March 2007

artículo científico publicado en 2007

A call to action on World Kidney Day, 8 March 2007.

artículo científico publicado en 2007

A low serum iron level is a predictor of poor outcome in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2004

A low, rather than a high, total plasma homocysteine is an indicator of poor outcome in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2004

A matched comparison of serum lipids between hemodialysis patients and nondialysis morbid controls

artículo científico publicado en 2005

A1C and survival in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2007

Adherence to ketoacids/essential amino acids-supplemented low protein diets and new indications for patients with chronic kidney disease

artículo científico publicado en 2016

Age and the associations of living donor and expanded criteria donor kidneys with kidney transplant outcomes

artículo científico publicado en 2012

Age-related decline in serum parathyroid hormone in maintenance hemodialysis patients is independent of inflammation and dietary nutrient intake

artículo científico publicado en 2004

An anti-inflammatory and antioxidant nutritional supplement for hypoalbuminemic hemodialysis patients: a pilot/feasibility study

artículo científico publicado en 2005

Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Oxidative Nutrition in Hypoalbuminemic Dialysis Patients (AIONID) study: results of the pilot-feasibility, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 20 September 2013

Anxiety and depression in maintenance dialysis patients: preliminary data of a cross-sectional study and brief literature review

artículo científico publicado en 2012

Appetite and inflammation, nutrition, anemia, and clinical outcome in hemodialysis patients.

artículo científico publicado en 2004

Association between Serum Bicarbonate and Death in Hemodialysis Patients: Is It Better to Be Acidotic or Alkalotic?

artículo científico publicado en 2005

Association between serum lipids and survival in hemodialysis patients and impact of race

artículo científico

Association of Height with Mortality in Patients Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2015

Association of Malnutrition-Inflammation Score with quality of life and mortality in hemodialysis patients: a 5-year prospective cohort study

artículo científico publicado en 2008

Association of cumulatively low or high serum calcium levels with mortality in long-term hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Association of dietary phosphorus intake and phosphorus to protein ratio with mortality in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Association of morbid obesity and weight change over time with cardiovascular survival in hemodialysis population

artículo científico publicado en 2005

Association of relatively low serum parathyroid hormone with malnutrition-inflammation complex and survival in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Association of serum prealbumin and its changes over time with clinical outcomes and survival in patients receiving hemodialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2008

Association of serum total iron-binding capacity and its changes over time with nutritional and clinical outcomes in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2009

Associations Between Weight Loss, Kidney Function Decline, and Risk of ESRD in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) Cohort Study

artículo científico publicado en 2017

Associations between Changes in Hemoglobin and Administered Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agent and Survival in Hemodialysis Patients

article

Associations of body fat and its changes over time with quality of life and prospective mortality in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2006

Baseline predictors of renal disease progression in the African American Study of Hypertension and Kidney Disease

artículo científico publicado en 2006

Body Mass Index and Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Can Outcomes be Improved in Dialysis Patients by Optimizing Trace Mineral, Micronutrient, and Antioxidant Status?: The Impact of Vitamins and their Supplementation

artículo científico

Causes and prevention of protein-energy wasting in chronic kidney failure

artículo científico publicado en 2009

Charlson comorbidity score is a strong predictor of mortality in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2011

Community-partnered approaches to enhance chronic kidney disease awareness, prevention, and early intervention

artículo científico

Comparing body composition assessment tests in long-term hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Comparing outcome predictability of markers of malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome in haemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2004

Correction of metabolic acidosis to ameliorate wasting in chronic kidney disease: goals and strategies

artículo científico publicado en 2009

Correlates of low hemoglobin A1c in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2012

Cryptococcal meningitis in a daily cannabis smoker without evidence of immunodeficiency

artículo científico publicado en 2018

Current Uses of Dietary Therapy for Patients with Far-Advanced CKD.

artículo científico publicado en 2017

Design and development of a dialysis food frequency questionnaire

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Development of a diagnostic method for detecting increased muscle protein degradation in patients with catabolic conditions

artículo científico publicado en 2006

Dietary assessment of individuals with chronic kidney disease

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Dietary energy requirements in relatively healthy maintenance hemodialysis patients estimated from long-term metabolic studies

artículo científico publicado en 2016

Dietary omega-3 fatty acid, ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 intake, inflammation, and survival in long-term hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2011

Dietary potassium intake and mortality in long-term hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Dietary protein intake in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and on dialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Dietary protein requirements and dialysate protein losses in chronic peritoneal dialysis patients

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Do low-protein diets retard the loss of kidney function in patients with diabetic nephropathy?

artículo científico publicado en 2008

Eating During Hemodialysis Treatment: A Consensus Statement From the International Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism

artículo científico publicado en 2018

Effect of a very low-protein diet on outcomes: long-term follow-up of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study

scientific article published on 31 October 2008

Effect of diabetes mellitus on protein-energy wasting and protein wasting in end-stage renal disease

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Effect of dietary protein restriction on the progression of kidney disease: long-term follow-up of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study

artículo científico publicado en 2006

Effect of endurance and/or strength training on muscle fiber size, oxidative capacity, and capillarity in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2015

Effect of exercise on mRNA levels for growth factors in skeletal muscle of hemodialysis patients.

artículo científico publicado en 2006

Effect of high-normal compared with low-normal arterial pH on protein balances in automated peritoneal dialysis patients

scientific article published on 21 October 2009

Effect of high-protein meals during hemodialysis combined with lanthanum carbonate in hypoalbuminemic dialysis patients: findings from the FrEDI randomized controlled trial.

artículo científico publicado en 2016

Effect of malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome on EPO hyporesponsiveness in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2003

Effect of oral anabolic steroid on muscle strength and muscle growth in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2012

Endurance exercise training during haemodialysis improves strength, power, fatigability and physical performance in maintenance haemodialysis patients

scientific article published on 19 April 2005

Erythropoietin, iron depletion, and relative thrombocytosis: a possible explanation for hemoglobin-survival paradox in hemodialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2008

Exercise in maintenance hemodialysis patients induces transcriptional changes in genes favoring anabolic muscle

artículo científico publicado en 2007

Factors affecting daily physical activity and physical performance in maintenance dialysis patients.

artículo científico publicado en 2015

Food intake characteristics of hemodialysis patients as obtained by food frequency questionnaire

artículo científico publicado en 2002

Frailty and protein-energy wasting in elderly patients with end stage kidney disease

artículo científico

Growth hormone induces anabolism in malnourished maintenance haemodialysis patients.

artículo científico publicado en 2005

Growth hormone treatment for patients with renal failure

artículo científico publicado en 1991

Hepatitis C virus and death risk in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2007

History of dietary protein therapy for the treatment of chronic renal disease from the mid 1800s until the 1950s.

artículo científico publicado en 2002

How to reconcile conventional and altered risk factor patterns in dialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2007

Impaired exercise capacity and exercise training in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2005

Improvement of nutritional status after initiation of maintenance hemodialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2002

In memory of Bruno Cianciaruso

artículo científico publicado en 2013

Inflammation and nutrition in renal insufficiency

artículo científico publicado en 2003

Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Hypertensive Chronic Kidney Disease ⬇️

artículo científico publicado el 2 de septiembre de 2010

Is There a Role for Diaphoresis Therapy for Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease Patients?

artículo científico publicado en 2017

Is controlling phosphorus by decreasing dietary protein intake beneficial or harmful in persons with chronic kidney disease?

artículo científico publicado en 2008

Is there a role for intradialytic parenteral nutrition? A review of the evidence

scientific article published on 25 October 2009

Is there a role for ketoacid supplements in the management of CKD?

artículo científico publicado en 2015

L-carnitine ameliorates gentamicin-induced renal injury in rats

artículo científico publicado en 2002

L-carnitine infusions may suppress serum C-reactive protein and improve nutritional status in maintenance hemodialysis patients.

artículo científico publicado en 2005

Long-term effects of renin-angiotensin system-blocking therapy and a low blood pressure goal on progression of hypertensive chronic kidney disease in African Americans

artículo científico publicado en 2008

Longitudinal Associations Between Dietary Protein Intake and Survival in Hemodialysis Patients

Longitudinal Weight Change During CKD Progression and Its Association With Subsequent Mortality

artículo científico publicado en 2017

Low protein nitrogen appearance as a surrogate of low dietary protein intake is associated with higher all-cause mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2013

Malnutrition-Inflammation Modifies the Relationship of Cholesterol with Cardiovascular Disease ⬇️

artículo científico publicado el 23 de septiembre de 2010

Malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome in dialysis patients: causes and consequences

artículo científico publicado en 2003

Management of protein-energy wasting in non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease: reconciling low protein intake with nutritional therapy

artículo científico publicado en 2013

Mental health, depression, and anxiety in patients on maintenance dialysis

scientific article published on July 2010

Metabolic acidosis and malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome in chronic renal failure

artículo científico publicado en 2004

Metabolic acidosis in maintenance dialysis patients: clinical considerations.

artículo científico publicado en 2003

Metabolic and morphometric profile of muscle fibers in chronic hemodialysis patients ⬇️

artículo científico publicado el 20 de octubre de 2011

Mid-arm muscle circumference and quality of life and survival in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Normalized protein nitrogen appearance is correlated with hospitalization and mortality in hemodialysis patients with Kt/V greater than 1.20.

artículo científico publicado en 2003

Novel equations to estimate lean body mass in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2011

Nutrition in kidney disease: introduction

artículo científico publicado en 2009

Nutritional Management of Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients

OPPORTUNITY: a randomized clinical trial of growth hormone on outcome in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2008

OPPORTUNITY™: a large-scale randomized clinical trial of growth hormone in hemodialysis patients

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease ⬇️

artículo científico publicado el 1 de septiembre de 2010

Obesity paradox in patients on maintenance dialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2006

Observations with Regard to the National Kidney Foundation K/DOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines Concerning Serum Transthyretin in Chronic Renal Failure

article published in 2002

Organic and inorganic dietary phosphorus and its management in chronic kidney disease.

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Outcome research, nutrition, and reverse epidemiology in maintenance dialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2004

Phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism in chronic kidney failure

artículo científico publicado en 2007

Physical performance and all-cause mortality in CKD

artículo científico publicado en 2013

Preface

Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms and Associated Factors in People with Low Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate: Findings from a South Korea National Survey.

artículo científico publicado en 2015

Pro: The rationale for dietary therapy for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

Protein and energy nutrition among adult patients treated with chronic peritoneal dialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2003

Quality of Care in Profit vs Not-For-Profit Dialysis Centers

artículo científico publicado en 2003

Quality-of-life and mortality in hemodialysis patients: roles of race and nutritional status

artículo científico publicado en 2011

Racial and ethnic differences in mortality of hemodialysis patients: role of dietary and nutritional status and inflammation

artículo científico publicado en 2011

Racial and ethnic differences in the association of body mass index and survival in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2011

Racial/ethnic differences in illness, perceptions in minority patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis ⬇️

artículo científico publicado el 1 de enero de 2012

Ratio of paricalcitol dosage to serum parathyroid hormone level and survival in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2008

Reducing peritonitis rates in a peritoneal dialysis program of indigent ethnic minorities.

artículo científico publicado en 2003

Relation between anxiety, depression, and physical activity and performance in maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2014

Relationship between serum carnitine, acylcarnitines, and renal function in patients with chronic renal disease.

artículo científico publicado en 2006

Relative contributions of inflammation and inadequate protein intake to hypoalbuminemia in patients on maintenance hemodialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2012

Reverse epidemiology of blood pressure in dialysis patients

scholarly article by Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh et al published May 2005 in Kidney International

Reverse epidemiology of cardiovascular risk factors in maintenance dialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2003

Reverse epidemiology of hypertension and cardiovascular death in the hemodialysis population: the 58th annual fall conference and scientific sessions

artículo científico publicado en 2005

Revisiting mortality predictability of serum albumin in the dialysis population: time dependency, longitudinal changes and population-attributable fraction

artículo científico publicado en 2005

Revisiting the association between altitude and mortality in dialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2014

Rights of chronic renal failure patients undergoing chronic dialysis therapy

artículo científico publicado en 2004

Risks of chronic metabolic acidosis in patients with chronic kidney disease

artículo científico publicado en 2005

Role of adipose tissue in determining muscle mass in patients with chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on September 2007

Role of nutritional status and inflammation in higher survival of African American and Hispanic hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2011

Self-Reported Interview-Assisted Diet Records Underreport Energy Intake in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients

artículo científico publicado en 2015

Serum albumin as a predictor of mortality in peritoneal dialysis: comparisons with hemodialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2011

Serum alkaline phosphatase predicts mortality among maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2008

Serum and dialysate potassium concentrations and survival in hemodialysis patients

artículo científico

Serum creatinine as a marker of muscle mass in chronic kidney disease: results of a cross-sectional study and review of literature

artículo científico publicado en 2012

Serum creatinine level, a surrogate of muscle mass, predicts mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients

scientific article published on 05 June 2013

Skeletal muscle mRNA for IGF-IEa, IGF-II, and IGF-I receptor is decreased in sedentary chronic hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2005

Survival disparities within American and Israeli dialysis populations: learning from similarities and distinctions across race and ethnicity

artículo científico publicado en 2010

Survival predictability of lean and fat mass in men and women undergoing maintenance hemodialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2010

The Effect of Obesity on Chronic Kidney Disease ⬇️

artículo científico publicado el 1 de enero de 2011

The End-Stage Renal Disease Adherence Questionnaire (ESRD-AQ): testing the psychometric properties in patients receiving in-center hemodialysis ⬇️

artículo científico publicado el 1 de julio de 2010

The effect of nutrition on blood pressure

artículo científico publicado en 2010

The obesity paradox and mortality associated with surrogates of body size and muscle mass in patients receiving hemodialysis

artículo científico publicado en 2010

The phenomenon of altered risk factor patterns or reverse epidemiology in persons with advanced chronic kidney failure

artículo científico publicado en 2005

The role of race in survival among patients undergoing dialysis.

artículo científico publicado en 2011

Trace elements and vitamins in maintenance dialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2003

Transcriptional levels of growth factors in skeletal muscle of maintenance hemodialysis patients

artículo científico publicado en 2006

Understanding sources of dietary phosphorus in the treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on 21 January 2010

Validation of creatinine-based estimates of GFR when evaluating risk factors in longitudinal studies of kidney disease

artículo científico publicado en 2006

Vitamin status and needs for people with stages 3-5 chronic kidney disease

artículo científico publicado en 2011

World Kidney Day 2008: a message to the kidney community of Iran

artículo científico publicado en 2008

World Kidney Day: an idea whose time has come

artículo científico publicado en 2006

World Kidney Day: an idea whose time has come

artículo científico publicado en 2006

World Kidney Day: an idea whose time has come

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

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A call to action on World Kidney Day, 8 March 2007

A call to action on World Kidney Day, 8 March 2007.

A low serum iron level is a predictor of poor outcome in hemodialysis patients

A low, rather than a high, total plasma homocysteine is an indicator of poor outcome in hemodialysis patients

A matched comparison of serum lipids between hemodialysis patients and nondialysis morbid controls

A1C and survival in maintenance hemodialysis patients

Adherence to ketoacids/essential amino acids-supplemented low protein diets and new indications for patients with chronic kidney disease

Age and the associations of living donor and expanded criteria donor kidneys with kidney transplant outcomes

Age-related decline in serum parathyroid hormone in maintenance hemodialysis patients is independent of inflammation and dietary nutrient intake

An anti-inflammatory and antioxidant nutritional supplement for hypoalbuminemic hemodialysis patients: a pilot/feasibility study

Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Oxidative Nutrition in Hypoalbuminemic Dialysis Patients (AIONID) study: results of the pilot-feasibility, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial

Anxiety and depression in maintenance dialysis patients: preliminary data of a cross-sectional study and brief literature review

Appetite and inflammation, nutrition, anemia, and clinical outcome in hemodialysis patients.

Association between Serum Bicarbonate and Death in Hemodialysis Patients: Is It Better to Be Acidotic or Alkalotic?

Association between serum lipids and survival in hemodialysis patients and impact of race

Association of Height with Mortality in Patients Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis

Association of Malnutrition-Inflammation Score with quality of life and mortality in hemodialysis patients: a 5-year prospective cohort study

Association of cumulatively low or high serum calcium levels with mortality in long-term hemodialysis patients

Association of dietary phosphorus intake and phosphorus to protein ratio with mortality in hemodialysis patients

Association of morbid obesity and weight change over time with cardiovascular survival in hemodialysis population

Association of relatively low serum parathyroid hormone with malnutrition-inflammation complex and survival in maintenance hemodialysis patients

Association of serum prealbumin and its changes over time with clinical outcomes and survival in patients receiving hemodialysis

Association of serum total iron-binding capacity and its changes over time with nutritional and clinical outcomes in hemodialysis patients

Associations Between Weight Loss, Kidney Function Decline, and Risk of ESRD in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) Cohort Study

Associations between Changes in Hemoglobin and Administered Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agent and Survival in Hemodialysis Patients

Associations of body fat and its changes over time with quality of life and prospective mortality in hemodialysis patients

Baseline predictors of renal disease progression in the African American Study of Hypertension and Kidney Disease

Body Mass Index and Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease

Can Outcomes be Improved in Dialysis Patients by Optimizing Trace Mineral, Micronutrient, and Antioxidant Status?: The Impact of Vitamins and their Supplementation

Causes and prevention of protein-energy wasting in chronic kidney failure

Charlson comorbidity score is a strong predictor of mortality in hemodialysis patients

Community-partnered approaches to enhance chronic kidney disease awareness, prevention, and early intervention

Comparing body composition assessment tests in long-term hemodialysis patients

Comparing outcome predictability of markers of malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome in haemodialysis patients

Correction of metabolic acidosis to ameliorate wasting in chronic kidney disease: goals and strategies

Correlates of low hemoglobin A1c in maintenance hemodialysis patients

Cryptococcal meningitis in a daily cannabis smoker without evidence of immunodeficiency

Current Uses of Dietary Therapy for Patients with Far-Advanced CKD.

Design and development of a dialysis food frequency questionnaire

Development of a diagnostic method for detecting increased muscle protein degradation in patients with catabolic conditions

Dietary assessment of individuals with chronic kidney disease

Dietary energy requirements in relatively healthy maintenance hemodialysis patients estimated from long-term metabolic studies

Dietary omega-3 fatty acid, ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 intake, inflammation, and survival in long-term hemodialysis patients

Dietary potassium intake and mortality in long-term hemodialysis patients

Dietary protein intake in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and on dialysis

Dietary protein requirements and dialysate protein losses in chronic peritoneal dialysis patients

Do low-protein diets retard the loss of kidney function in patients with diabetic nephropathy?

Eating During Hemodialysis Treatment: A Consensus Statement From the International Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism

Effect of a very low-protein diet on outcomes: long-term follow-up of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study

Effect of diabetes mellitus on protein-energy wasting and protein wasting in end-stage renal disease

Effect of dietary protein restriction on the progression of kidney disease: long-term follow-up of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study

Effect of endurance and/or strength training on muscle fiber size, oxidative capacity, and capillarity in hemodialysis patients

Effect of exercise on mRNA levels for growth factors in skeletal muscle of hemodialysis patients.

Effect of high-normal compared with low-normal arterial pH on protein balances in automated peritoneal dialysis patients

Effect of high-protein meals during hemodialysis combined with lanthanum carbonate in hypoalbuminemic dialysis patients: findings from the FrEDI randomized controlled trial.

Effect of malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome on EPO hyporesponsiveness in maintenance hemodialysis patients

Effect of oral anabolic steroid on muscle strength and muscle growth in hemodialysis patients

Endurance exercise training during haemodialysis improves strength, power, fatigability and physical performance in maintenance haemodialysis patients

Erythropoietin, iron depletion, and relative thrombocytosis: a possible explanation for hemoglobin-survival paradox in hemodialysis

Exercise in maintenance hemodialysis patients induces transcriptional changes in genes favoring anabolic muscle

Factors affecting daily physical activity and physical performance in maintenance dialysis patients.

Food intake characteristics of hemodialysis patients as obtained by food frequency questionnaire

Frailty and protein-energy wasting in elderly patients with end stage kidney disease

Growth hormone induces anabolism in malnourished maintenance haemodialysis patients.

Growth hormone treatment for patients with renal failure

Hepatitis C virus and death risk in hemodialysis patients

History of dietary protein therapy for the treatment of chronic renal disease from the mid 1800s until the 1950s.

How to reconcile conventional and altered risk factor patterns in dialysis patients

Impaired exercise capacity and exercise training in maintenance hemodialysis patients

Improvement of nutritional status after initiation of maintenance hemodialysis

In memory of Bruno Cianciaruso

Inflammation and nutrition in renal insufficiency

Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Hypertensive Chronic Kidney Disease ⬇️

Is There a Role for Diaphoresis Therapy for Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease Patients?

Is controlling phosphorus by decreasing dietary protein intake beneficial or harmful in persons with chronic kidney disease?

Is there a role for intradialytic parenteral nutrition? A review of the evidence

Is there a role for ketoacid supplements in the management of CKD?

L-carnitine ameliorates gentamicin-induced renal injury in rats

L-carnitine infusions may suppress serum C-reactive protein and improve nutritional status in maintenance hemodialysis patients.