Credit: Original article published here.There is an association between nutritional status and survival among patients on dialysis. However, according to Sara Blumberg Benyamini, PhD, and colleagues, available data focus on patients who have undergone hemodialysis treatment for a minimum of 8 weeks. There are only limited data on the association between clinical outcome and baseline nutritional status at initiation of dialysis and any changes following dialysis initiation. The researchers conducted a retrospective observational study to examine how baseline nutritional status at the time of dialysis initiation, and the improvement or worsening of nutritional status during the first 3 months of dialysis treatments, affect survival for up to 5 years following the start of renal replacement therapy. Results were reported in the Journal of Renal Nutrition [2022;32(6):758-765]. During the study period of March 1, 2009, to March 1, 2019, 299 patients initiated hemodialysis at the Nephrology and Hypertension Department at the E. Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel. Of those, 287 patients had data on initial nutritional score and first 3 months of nutritional score available. Nutritional status was determined using the Integrative Clinical Nutrition Dialysis Score (ICNDS) that is based on biochemical assessment of albumin, creatinine, urea, cholesterol, dialysis adequacy, C-reactive