World Renal Nutrition Week Congress: from Hawaii to Germany.
IN THIS ISSUE of the journal, we present several important contributions that were presented in Honolulu, Hawaii, during the recent XVI International Congress on Nutrition and Metabolism in Renal Disease (ICRND) part of World Renal Nutrition Week (www.Renal NutritionWeek.com) June 25 to 30, 2012. The International Society for Renal Nutrition and Metabolism (ISRNM) has organized these Congresses since 1977 to promote research, education, and clinical use of nutrition and metabolism for the benefit of people with kidney disease. The World Renal Nutrition Week 2012 was a joint project of the ISRNM (www.RenalNutrition.com), the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii (www.kidneyhi. org), and the National Kidney Foundation Council of Renal Nutrition (www.kidney.org). World Renal NutritionWeek 2012 also included the first International Dietary Phosphorus Consensus Conference (www.PhosInFood. com), aworkshop on basic and translational muscle science, a course on protein-energy wasting, and the 4th biannual ISRNMDietitian Education Program. The 16th ICRNM was the largest and most diverse congress ever with 70 faculty and over 700 participants from over 40 countries and 5 continents, and it included nephrologists, other physicians, nutrition specialists, dieticians, and basic scientists. It was also the most diverse in subject matter with wide representation of basic, translational, and clinical research. Although diet, intermediate metabolism, body composition, muscle metabolism, clinical trials, outcomes research, and dietetics continued to be well represented, there was a great outpouring of studies on protein-energy wasting, mineral metabolism, cardiovascular risk, dialysis modalities, transplantation, and progression of renal disease. Rather than trying to present comprehensive proceedings, we selected 16 of the invited lectures for this issue and may present others as selected reviews in upcoming issues of this journal. Much of the content of the meeting has already