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ABSTRACT: Background
Rigid dietary controls and pill burden make a very-low protein (0.3-0.4 g/kg body weight per day), vegetarian diet supplemented with ketoanalogues of amino acids (sVLPD) hard to follow in the long-term. This study aimed to evaluate whether a ketoanalogue supplemental low-protein diet (sLPD) (0.6 g/kg body weight per day) could also reduce the risks of dialysis among CKD stage 4 patients.Methods
Patients aged >20 years with a diagnosis of stage 4 CKD who subsequently received ketosteril treatment, which is the most commonly used ketoanalogue of essential amino acids, between 2003 and 2018 were identified from the Chang Gung Research Database (CGRD). Then, these individuals were divided into two groups according to the continuation of ketosteril for more than th
SUBMITTER: Yen CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9571353 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature