Malnutrition and cerebral white matter lesions in dialysis patients

【Objective】To examine the association between nutritional status and the severity of cerebral white matter lesions (WMLs) in dialysis patients. 【Methods】Subjects consisted of 28 patients with end-stage renal failure who underwent regular hemodialysis in the affiliated hospitals of Showa University Hospital. All subjects underwent brain MRI and various clinical and laboratory tests. All subjects were divided into three groups based on the following criteria. GroupI was defined as having 0 or 1 of the 4 findings of malnutrition (body mass index