Assessing Nutrition Status in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: A Research on Rural Northern India

There is a significant relation betweenn nutrition and CKD. Patients suffering from CKD are at risk for a number of nutritional disorders. Within India, the rural states suffer from a high rate of malnutrition among CKDpatients as compared to the urban states. Evaluating nutritional status in CKD patients facilitates increasing the survival rate. Taking this into consideration, the present research has been focused on assessing and monitoring the nutrition in CKD patients after nutritional intervention. Further, changes in anthropometric measurements of CKD patients post dietary intervention in rural India have also been observed. The study was conducted in the OPD/IPD and dialysis unit of the Nephrology and Medicine department. Total 90 patients of CKD stage 3-5 were considered in this research. All the patients were provided with a customised nutritional intervention plan. Central tendency tests have been conducted here. The research found that MUAC and triceps presented statistically significant change, while weight and BMI did not present any statistically significant change in Stage 3–5 CKD patients post-nutrition intervention. Further, the consumption of nutrients (water, energy, protein, and fat) has been less when compared to the prescribed values.