The lived experience of renal cachexia: An interpretive phenomenological analysis

• Main Authors: Carolyn Blair (Author), Joanne Shields (Author), Robert Mullan (Author), William Johnston (Author), Andrew Davenport (Author), Denis Fouque (Author), Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (Author), Peter Maxwell (Author), Clare McKeaveney (Author), Helen Noble (Author), Sam Porter (Author), David Seres (Author), Adrian Slee (Author), Ian Swaine (Author), Miles Witham (Author), Joanne Reid (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Chronic kidney disease is common, affecting up to 13 % of the global population, and is predicted to become the fifth leading cause of 'life years lost' by 2040. Individuals with end-stage kidney disease commonly develop complications such as protein-energy wasting and cachexia...