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Body composition, muscle strength and fitness for peritoneal dialysis patients ...

Introduction It is common for patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) to have frequent complaints of low aerobic capacity, muscle weakness and chronic fatigue. The present body of evidence indicates that patient outcome is compromised if total Kt/V is below 1.7 (Lo, 2003; Yao et al., 2001). An adequacy of weekly peritoneal creatinine clearance (CCr) above 60 L/1.73 m2 is also suggested (Paniagua et al., 2002)...