Nutritional Status

Monitoring nutritional status is not the same for pediatric and adult patients with chronic kidney disease, and all nephrologists should be aware of the differences, according to an article in Seminars in Nephrology.

Diet and nutritional status of patients with stage 4 to 5 chronic kidney disease may not vastly differ between those with or without diabetes.

Among patients with chronic kidney disease, the more medication prescriptions one has is associated with poor nutritional status, according to data published in the Journal of Renal Nutrition.

For up to 5 years following renal replacement therapy, nutritional status at dialysis initiation is associated with long-term survival, according to data published in the Journal of Renal Nutrition.

The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index predicted adverse outcomes and the need for transfusions when applied to patients older than 65 years in a national database who underwent total joint arthroplasty, results showed.

Nearly 35% of patients with advanced chronic kidney disease experienced a deterioration in nutritional status in the course of a year, according to research conducted across six European countries.

Patients on hemodialysis who received dietary counseling on the phone during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced improvements in a variety of parameters associated with nutritional status, according to study findings.

Social determinants of health are environmental factors that can be modified to improve a patient’s ability to manage musculoskeletal disease and intervention. Where a person lives, works and accesses health care can affect outcomes of surgical care. While many environmental factors are quickly glossed over in preoperative assessments, often with the thought that not much can be done to change them, overall outcomes can be affected, thus leading to conclusions that costly interventions are not valuable to patients and overall population health.

HOUSTON — In this video exclusive, Gary Scheiner, MS, CDE, owner and clinical director, and Jennifer C. Smith, RD, LD, CDE, director of lifestyle and nutrition services, both at Integrated Diabetes Services in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, speak with Endocrine Today Diabetes in Real Life columnist Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDE, CDN, FAADE, about how individuals with diabetes are taking more control of their devices through “hacking” and do-it-yourself measures.

In this guest commentary, Kate Scarlata, MPH, RDN, a Boston-based registered dietitian, addresses the results of a recent case report published in an open-access journal that indicated that a plant-based diet induced remission in a patient with Crohn’s disease. The results received a significant amount of social media attention and touted a plant-based diet as a ‘cure’, however as Scarlata notes, that’s not necessarily the case.