Malnutrition-Inflammation Score in Hemodialysis Patients

Background: malnutrition is a prevalent complication in patients on maintenance hemodialysis. malnutrition-inflammation score (mis), comprehensive nutritional assessment tool, as the reference standard was used to examine protein-energy wasting (pew) and inflammation in hemodialysis patients.materials and methods: in this descriptive- analytical study, 48 hemodialysis patients were selected with random sampling. all the patients were interviewed and the mis of the patients was recorded. this new comprehensive malnutrition-inflammation score (mis) which involves 7 components from the sga and the 3 additional non-sga components of body mass index, serum albumin, and total iron-binding capacity (tibc) has 10 components, each with four levels of severity, from 0 (normal) to 3 (very severe). these scores were compared with anthropometric measurements; laboratory measures. data was analyzed with chi-square and t-tests and pearson correlation coefficiant.results: in this study 25% of patients on hemodialysis were normal nourished, 54.3% of patients were mild malnourished, 20.8% were moderately malnourished and no one of them were not sever malnurished. pearson correlation coefficients between mis score and age (r=+0.332) was significant. there was no correlation between the malnutrition score and sex chi-square test showed significant correlation between mis score and dialysis period ?50 months (?²=9.09).conclusion: in this study, no one of patients has severed malnutrition, and most of them were assigned to the mildly/moderately malnourished rating. on other hand, most of patients are the well-nourished. correlation between mis score and age and dialysis period was significant.