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From: High rates of central obesity and sarcopenia in CKD irrespective of renal replacement therapy – an observational cross-sectional study

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Nutritional status of patients according to stage of kidney disease (CKD chronic kidney disease; ESRD-HD end-stage renal disease treated with hemodialysis; Tx: recipients of a renal transplant) and established BMI cut-offs (a) and according to sarcopenia, central obesity and sarcopenic obesity (b). Sarcopenia was defined by low skeletal muscle index and low hand grip strength, central obesity according to waist circumference and sarcopenic obesity as presence of sarcopenia and central obesity

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BMC Nephrology

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