Food & Nutrition

Arab Journal of Food & Nutrition
urea, creatinine and uric acid.
Hemoglobin and hematocrit were low in male and female hemodialysis patients
but they were lower in females (7.9 g/dl, 0.24 and 6.3 g/dl, 0.20) respectively.
Ten patients (5 males and 5 females) of the 20 hemodialysis patients were
counseled using a nutritional counseling program. The rest 10 patients were left
without counseling. The two groups were given an evaluation exam before and after
counseling. The first group patients were counseled over one month (8 sessions for
each patient) then they were left one month and reassessed over 3 months. After
counseling no significant differences were detected between counseled and noncounseled
groups except for water intake of female patients and sodium intake of male
patients which were decreased in the counseled groups. However, there was a slight
increase in the hemoglobin in males and in serum albumin in both sexes. Regarding
the scores of the exam, counseled male and female patients got higher scores after
counseling as compared with non-counseled patients (P