Nutritional adequacy of animal-based and plant-based Asian diets for chronic kidney disease patients: a modeling study

• Main Authors: Khor, Ban-Hock, Dina A. Tallman, Tilakavati Karupaiah, Pramod Khosla, Maria Chan, Joel D. Kopple
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2021
• Subjects: RC31-1245 Internal medicine; TX341-641 Nutrition. Foods and food supply
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42430/1/FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42430/; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13103341

Plant-based low protein diets (LPDs) have gained popularity for managing chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. The nutritional adequacy of these and other LPDs prescribed for CKD patients have not been carefully examined. This study assessed the nutrient composition of such LPDs and moderately high...