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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.

Palabras clave : Renal dialysis; nutritional status.

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