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Fig. 1 | Renal Replacement Therapy

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From: Renal health benefits of sustainable diets in Japan: a review

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The diet-environment-health trilemma is superimposed by dialysis therapy for patients with end-stage kenal disease. Diet and nutrition, health, and the environment all mutually interact. When focusing on kidney health, maintenance dialysis is essential for individuals with end-stage kenal disease and generates health care-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE). Drugs, hospitalization, capital investment, labor costs, water, electricity, waste, and plastics should all be recognized as having environmental impacts

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