Association of Nutritional Status with Depression and Sleep Disorders in Elderly End Stage Renal Disease Patients - Does Chronic Inflammation Cause it all?

rESulTS: According to SGA, 48 (65.8%) patients were well nourished and 25 (34.2%) patients had mild-moderate and severe malnutrition. When the well-nourished and malnourished patients were compared, the well-nourished group had higher albumin (p<.0001) and creatinine (p=.03) levels, higher body mass indices (p<.01), lower CRP levels (p<.0001), better quality of sleep (p<.0001) and lower depression scores (p<.0001) than the malnourished group. When we grouped patients as Group I (not depressive and good sleep quality), Group II (depressive but good sleep quality) and Group III (both depressive and poor sleep quality, we found that Group III had the lowest albumin (p < .0001) and highest CRP (p < .0001) values when compared to the other two groups.