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Nutrition in hemodialysis patients is important in decreasing complications, improving quality of life, and preventing of malnutrition. Recommendations of the guidelines are taken into consideration while prescribing a nutrition therapy plan for patients. However, the recommendations may differ between the guidelines. It was aimed to compare the newly published National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF KDOQI) guideline with previous reported two guideline recommendations and protein energy wasting criteria in this study.

Fifty-five maintenance hemodialysis patients between the ages of 18–65 were included in the study. Daily energy intake and daily protein intake of these patients were evaluated by three different nutrition guidelines; NKF KDOQI-2000, 2020 and European Best Practice Guidelines-2007. In addition, protein energy wasting …