Retarding CKD Progression: Readily Available through Comprehensive Nutritional Management?

Abstract

This manuscript is aimed at summarising the evidences raised by the 2nd International conference of the European Renal Nutrition (ERN) working group at the ERA-EDTA “Retarding CKD progression: readily available through comprehensive nutritional management?” This project is focused on everyday nutritional issues related to non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) condition. A non-dialysis CKD clinical case of common presentation in the daily clinical practice will be reported and thereafter several key aspects of the comprehensive nutritional management which nephrologists face daily in clinics will be addressed; definitely, baseline nutritional assessment, basic nutritional concerns, major nutritional targets, nutritional strategies to improve renal outcomes, and modalities of nutritional follow-up will be discussed in relation to follow-up of the case report.