“My Patients Cannot Follow The Diet”: Malaysia’s Kidney Care Community Spent Two Days On That One Question

The 6th Renal Nutrition Conference brought together nephrologists, dietitians, nurses and pharmacists in Subang Jaya — not to debate the latest guidelines, but to examine what happens when those guidelines meet the patient's actual life.

The Rakyat Post Fernando Fong · News & blogs · 3 hr ago

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It was organised by the National Kidney Foundation of Malaysia (NKF) under the theme “Translating Nutrition Evidence into Kidney Patient Care.”
The theme, in practice, is a diagnosis of a gap, and the conference placed the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) 2024 recommendations — the most current global framework for nutritional management in chronic kidney disease (CKD) — at the centre of that examination.
They centred on whether clinicians are applying them, and whether patients are benefiting when they do.

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One session at Malaysia’s largest renal nutrition conference held recently carried a title that stood apart from the clinical language around it.

That question — the actual name of a forum at the 6th Renal Nutrition Conference 2026 (RNC2026) — framed what the conference spent two days trying to answer.

The conference, held at Grand Dorsett Subang on 10 and 11 October, drew 450 healthcare professionals from across the renal care community, including nephrologists, dietitians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals.

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Published: October 13, 2026 at 7:12 AM UTC
By: Fernando Fong
Section: Malaysia
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