Is the "Nutritional Risk Index for Japanese Hemodialysis" validated as a nutritional and prognostic indicator?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Nephrology, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. Electronic address: ktmori@omu.ac.jp.
• ² Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
• ³ Department of Blood Purification, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴ Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan.
• ⁵ Human Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Department of Epidemiology Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Hiroshima University Graduate school of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan.
• ⁶ Institute for Health Outcomes and Process Evaluation research (iHope International), Kyoto, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Nephrology, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
• ⁸ Kidney Center, Ohno Memorial Hospital, Osaka, Japan.