From 11-14 September this year, the 45th Congress of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) took place in Lyon, France, where participants from all over the world presented their scientific papers on the relationship between nutrition and diseases in the context of basic sciences and clinical nutrition.
Representing the University of Zielona Góra and the Student Scientific Circle "Clinical Nutrition" was Jan Nicikowski, who presented two qualified original papers. One focused on the nutritional status of hemodialysis patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, while the other described the impact of the dietary inflammatory index on the mortality of hemodialysis patients. The presented abstracts were published in the December supplement of the journal Clinical Nutrition ESPEN.
Co-author and academic supervisor of the papers is Dr. Ireneusz Habura - Head of the Clinical Department of Nephrology and Dialysis Station at the University Hospital in Zielona Góra.
Jan Nicikowski is a fourth-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Zielona Góra. He serves as the chairman of the Student Scientific Circle "Clinical Nutrition".
Photographs: private archive
