Handgrip strength and mortality in a cohort of kidney failure patients: Comparative analysis of different normalization methods.

Mohamed E SulimanKakei RyuAbdul Rashid QureshiXiejia LiCarla Maria AvesaniPeter BaranyOlof HeimbürgerPeter StenvinkelBengt Lindholm

Published in: Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) (2024)

HGS% was a strong predictor of all-cause mortality risk in incident dialysis patients and a better discriminator of survival than absolute HGS or HGS normalized to body size dimensions.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
chronic kidney disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
type diabetes