Nutritional predictors of early mortality in incident hemodialysis patients

Low serum albumin concentration and low dietary protein intake are associated with protein-energy wasting (PEW) and higher mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients. The role of these nutritional markers is less clear in clinical outcomes of the first several months of dialysis therapy, where mortality is exceptionally high.In a cohort of 17,445 incident hemodialysis patients, we examined variation in serum albumin and the normalized...