Maintenance hemodialysis patients’ nutritional literacy and its relationship with frailty: a cross-sectional study based on latent profile analysis (opens in new tab)

BackgroundMalnutrition is a common complication among maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. Although the association between nutritional literacy and frailty is well established, prior research has largely focused on individual risk factors or relied solely on total scores from nutrition-related scales, thereby overlooking heterogeneity within patient groups. As a result, the specific relationship between distinct patterns of nutritional literacy and frailty remains unclear.ObjectiveTo ide...