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Erratum to: Using a generic definition of cachexia to understand clinical characteristics and mortality in patients with kidney disease receiving haemodialysis: a longitudinal (pilot) study
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In the originally published version of thismanuscript, amendments made during the proofing stage were not applied and have been listed in this erratum. Upon the original publication, there was an error in the spelling of author Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh’s surname. Upon the original publication, the ORCID ID for authors Andrew Davenport and Helen Noble were incorrectly added to the author list. These have now been deleted. Upon the original publication, the Twitter handle of some authors were added to the Corresponding author information in error. These have now been deleted. Upon the original publication, the following sentence in the “Results” line in the Abstract should read: “A total of 106 patients (30 females and 76 males) were recruited with a mean age of 67.6 years.”. Upon the original publication, the “Materials andMethods” section had the following errors: In the first paragraph, the following sentence should read: “...between September 2017 and April 2019.”. In the second paragraph, the following sentence should read: “A single researcher carried out all assessments.”. Under the “Musclemass (MUAMC)” heading, the following sentence should read: “Suitable cut-point values designated the 5th percentile as an appropriate cut-point for lowMUAMC using normative values (i.e. <23.8cmfor males and <18.4cm for females) [11, 12].”. Under the “Analysis” heading, the following sentence should read: “Dichotomized values were compared using the X2 test.”. Upon the original publication, the following text in the Results section, under the “Longitudinal results” heading should read: “showed a significant main effect of time on HGS (P<0.001)”. Upon the original publication, the following sentence in the Discussion section, under the “Cachectic phenotype” heading should read: “Therefore the cut-off value for CRP levels in an ESRD population needs to be revised to a level >5mg/L.”. Upon the original publication, the following text in the Funding section should read: “Public Health Agency Northern Ireland”. Upon the original publication, within the reference section, the following citation (11) should refer to: “StosovicM, StanojevicM, Sanja Simic-Ogrizovic S, et al. The predictive value of anthropometric parameters onmortality in haemodialysis patients. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2011; 26: 1367–1374.”. These errors have now been corrected online. The publisher apologizes for the errors.
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