Dietary antioxidents and oxidative stress in predialysis chronic kidney disease patients.
BACKGROUND
Dietary antioxidants are important in protecting against human diseases. Oxidative stress, a non- traditional risk factors of cardio-vascular disease is far more prevalent in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients than in normal subjects.


METHODS
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Google Scholar, Pubmed (NLM), LISTA (EBSCO) and Web of Science have been searched.


RESULTS
Oxidative stress could be a consequence of an increase in reactive oxygen species as well as a decrease in antioxidant defenses. Among the important factors that can be involved in triggering oxidative stress is insufficient dietary intake of antioxidants. Malnourished CKD patients are reported to have more oxidative stress than well nourished ones.


CONCLUSIONS
Moving beyond the importance of assessment of dietary protein and energy in pre dialysis CKD patients to the assessment of dietary antioxidants is of utmost importance to help combat enhanced oxidative stress levels in such patients.
Department of Nephrology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Krishan
K
L Gupta
Department of Dietetics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Nancy
N
Sahni
Chronic kidney disease; Dietary antioxidants; Oxidative stress