Nutritional treatment for elderly chronic kidney disease patients with diabetes / 中国实用内科杂志

ABSTRACT

Nutritional treatment is of great importance for chronic kidney disease(CKD), with its particularity for elderly patients with diabetes. Low-protein diet, as the core of the nutritional treatment, is expected to improve the prognosis of elderly CKD patients with diabetes. However, considering its higher risk of malnutrition, blood glucose elevation and depression in these patients, appropriate protein limitation and in-time nutritional status assessment should be emphasized.Meanwhile, the weak compliance of low-protein diet in elderly patients should be improved. Since elderly CKD patients with diabetes are likely to suffer from many other complications, individual ized nutritional therapy should be prescribed according to the nutritional status of the patient.