title: Issues in renal nutrition for persons from the former Soviet Union.
abstract: Dietary practices differ greatly among individuals by race and ethnicity. The importance of these differences is accentuated in patients with end-stage renal disease, a population for whom dietary restrictions are often prescribed. In addition to the known variation in dietary practices among US-born whites and African-Americans, persons of other ethnicities often present new and unique challenges to the dialysis-nutrition care team. The UCSF-Mt. Zion Dialysis Unit (San Francisco, CA) is a university-affiliated dialysis unit that serves an ethnically diverse population in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood. Ten percent to 15% of patients are recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union. This report highlights the dietary practices of this immigrant community and the need for ethnicity-specific renal nutrition recommendations in modern dialysis practice.
authors.affiliation: Dialysis Unit, UCSF-Mt. Zion Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gorodetskaya
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Matel
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Chertow
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017517:Commonwealth of Independent States / Q000208:ethnology; D015930:Diet Records; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012426:Russia / Q000208:ethnology; D014455:Ukraine / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004041:Dietary Fats; D004044:Dietary Proteins