This translational text offers in-depth reviews of the metabolic and nutritional disorders that are prevalent in patients with renal disease. Chapter topics add

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Malnutrition and obesity are both common among Americans over age 65. There are also a host of other medical conditions from which older people and other Medica

Enormous progress has been made in the treatment of chronic renal failure over the last decades. Until the 1950s, chronic renal failure was considered to be an