Sustained appetite improvement in malnourished dialysis patients by daily ghrelin treatment

Malnutrition is a common complication in patients on dialysis and is strongly associated with poor prognosis. Effective therapy could substantially improve morbidity and mortality, but neither enteral nor parenteral supplementation provide long-term benefit because of the strong appetite suppression...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Kidney international 2009-07, Vol.76 (2), p.199-206
Hauptverfasser:	Ashby, Damien R., Ford, Heather E., Wynne, Katie J., Wren, Alison M., Murphy, Kevin G., Busbridge, Mark, Brown, Edwina A., Taube, David H., Ghatei, Mohammad A., Tam, Frederick W.K., Bloom, Stephen R., Choi, Peter
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Aged appetite Appetite - drug effects Biological and medical sciences Cross-Over Studies dialysis Double-Blind Method energy expenditure Energy Intake - drug effects Energy Metabolism - drug effects Female Ghrelin - administration & dosage Ghrelin - blood Ghrelin - therapeutic use hormones Humans Kidney Failure, Chronic - complications Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy Male malnutrition Malnutrition - drug therapy Malnutrition - therapy Medical sciences Metabolic diseases Middle Aged Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases Nephropathies. Renovascular diseases. Renal failure Other nutritional diseases (malnutrition, nutritional and vitamin deficiencies...) Renal Dialysis Renal failure Young Adult
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