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Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río
versão On-line ISSN 1561-3194
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RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, Nadienka et al. Nutritional assessment and its repercusion in the functional capacity: Hemodyalisis, "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado" General Hospital. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.1, pp. 178-189. ISSN 1561-3194.
Malnutritión is a frequent problem that represents a greater number of hospital admissions and compromise of the functional capacity of the patients that undergo a renal replacement hemodyalisis. Objective: Describe the nutritional status and the functional capacity of those patients that undergo hemodyalisis. Methods: A tranversal analytical study was carried out by means of a subjective comprehensive assessment and Karnofsky Scale during the months of January through May, 2008 . This study was conducted, with the due informed consent, on 34 patients in hemodyalisis who belong in the nephrological service of Abel Santamaria General Teaching Hospital of Pinar del Rio City. Variables like age, etiology of the chronic renal failure, time elapsed in hemodyalisis, nutritional status and functional capacity were included in the study. Information was gathered through surveys and from the the morbimortality book of the nephrology unit. The statistical analysis of frequency distribution was used for each category of variables. Furthermore, the independence test was also used so as to test the association of variable null hypothesis. The level of significance was set at á = 0.05. Results: 34 patients were studied. The average age was 48 years and the hemodyalisis treatment under study was 124 months. 66,67% of patients showed a normal nutritional status and functional capacity. On the other hand, 6 out of the whole group had evident signs of malnutrition from moderate to severe, which had direct correspondence with evident compromise of the functional capacity according to the Karnofsky Scale. There was no correlation with the nutritional status and the time in hemodyalisis in the patients who had undergone more that two years of treatment.
Palavras-chave : Renal dialysis; nutritional status.