New and old approaches to nutritional management of acute and chronic glomerulonephritis.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2023

Publication Title

Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension

Abstract

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: It has been well published that a low protein diet (0.6-0.8 g/kg/day) is optimal for nutritional management of chronic kidney disease and with care be used without inducing protein malnutrition.

RECENT FINDINGS: Though care with this approach must be demonstrated in patients with end-stage renal disease and with prominent protein energy wasting, another category of renal patient exists for whom dietary recommendations need more exploration. The Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes consortium, actually identifies renal disease as those patients with reduced filtration and those with excessive proteinuria excretion. Proteinuria, indeed, has proven to be a serious marker predisposing renal patients to atherosclerotic heart disease, venous thromboembolism, cerebrovascular accidents, and overall mortality. We discuss what is known about nutritional strategies to curb proteinuria and control inflammation in the setting of glomerulonephritis.

SUMMARY: While this area of management of a set of conditions maybe nascent, it has the potential to provide incredible breakthroughs in nutritional management of auto immune diseases of the kidney specifically and the body writ large.

Volume

32

Issue

1

First Page

76

Last Page

80

DOI

10.1097/MNH.0000000000000855

ISSN

1473-6543

PubMed ID

36444665

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