The Association Between Feeding Habits, Nutritional Parameters and Quality of Sleep in Hemodialysis Patients

Abstract

RESULTS: The quality of sleep was poor in 51.2% of the patients. These patients were relatively older than the patients with good quality of sleep (44.0±13.0 and 37.4±11.8 year respectively, p<0.001). The patients with the good quality of sleep consumed signifi cantly more meat-offal-cheese-egg (p<0.01) and fruit (p<0.05). The patients with the poor quality of sleep had signifi cantly lower albumin (p<0.01), pre-albumin (p=0.02) and total lymphocyte counts (p=0.02). The patients who more frequently had gastrointestinal complaints (especially abdominal discomfort and fl atulence) had the poor quality of sleep.