Nutritional status of patients on maintenance hemodialysis in urban sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Cameroon.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients on maintenance hemodialysis in this setting have rates of malnutrition similar to those reported elsewhere. However, the high prevalence of malnutrition among women and young patients deserves further consideration.
PMID: 24477981 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)