... nutritional index, BUN/carbHb, which correlated significantly with serum albumin as well as the normalized protein catabolic rate. These results demonstrate that carbHb accurately reflects uremic control and the BUN/carbHb ratio could serve as an index of nutritional state in HD patients. Forty-six patients...

.... Intracerebroventricular injection of orexin A stimulates food consumption in rats. Plasma concentrations of orexins may reflect nutritional states and may have clinical significance in patients on hemodialysis. In this study, we investigated the relationship between plasma orexin concentrations and nutritional states...