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Nutritional Management of Chronic Kidney Disease

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.,
and Denis Fouque, M.D., Ph.D.

The nutritional status of patients with chronic kidney disease is generally compromised and requires dietary adjustments. This review considers several aspects of the nutritional management of chronic kidney disease in adults.

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Funding and Disclosures

Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the full text of this article at NEJM.org.

We thank Dr. Connie M. Rhee for her review of an earlier version of this article and Ms. Vanessa Rojas-Bautista for assistance with the menu examples in the Supplementary Appendix.

Author Affiliations

From the Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Orange, the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Long Beach, the Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor–UCLA, Torrance — all in California (K.K.-Z.); and the Department of Nephrology, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (CarMeN), Lyon, France (D.F.).

Address reprint requests to Dr. Kalantar-Zadeh at the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Orange, CA 92868, or at [email protected].

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