Nutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease-The Role of Proteins and Specific Diets

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global public health burden, needing comprehensive management for preventing and delaying the progression to advanced CKD. The role of nutritional therapy as a strategy to slow CKD progression and uremia has been recommended for more than a century. Although a consistent body of evidence suggest a benefit of protein restriction therapy, patients' adherence and compliance have to be considered when prescribing nutritional therapy in advanced CKD patients. Therefore, these prescriptions need to be individualized since some patients may prefer to enjoy their food without restriction, despite knowing the potential importance of dietary therapy in reducing uremic manifestations, maintaining protein-energy status.

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Chronic kidney disease is a global public health burden that requires comprehensive management to prevent and delay disease progression. Although nutritional therapy has been recommended for over a century as a strategy to slow disease progression, the adherence and compliance of patients need to be taken into consideration when prescribing such therapy. Individualized prescriptions are necessary as some patients may prioritize enjoying their food without restriction over the potential benefits of dietary therapy.