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Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Heart failure (HF) is associated with significant alterations in body composition, including malnutrition due to insufficient intake, chronic inflammation and increased energy expenditure. Identifying...
This cross-sectional, single-center, observational study involved 121 outpatients diagnosed with HF. Nutritional status was assessed using the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), the Malnutrition Unive...
The study found that 10.7% had cardiac cachexia and 45.4% of deceased patients had been in this condition (...
There is a high prevalence of malnutrition among outpatients with HF, which is associated with worse prognosis, increased risk of sarcopenia, and greater frailty. These findings underscore the importa...
Malnutrition remains a significant problem in patients with acute or chronic illnesses. Nutrition assessment is an important component in detecting malnutrition; but not always performed using a stand...
This 2022 survey of US-based nutrition clinicians collected data on assessment parameters used in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and the home care setting....
A total of 686 surveys were available for analysis. Ninety-seven percent of adult and 91% of pediatric responding clinicians indicated that a dietitian completed the assessment. Parameters used most f...
This survey demonstrated significant use of the AAIM by both adult and pediatric clinicians across care settings. Reported malnutrition rates are consistent with others published in the literature. Th...
Adequate complementary feeding practices are important for short- and long-term child health. In industrialized countries, the formulation of several commercial baby foods (CBFs) and an increase in th...
To update and analyze the nutritional composition of CBFs available in the Italian market....
Data collection carried out in two steps (July 2018-January 2019) and updated in May-September 2021. The information on CBFs was taken from the websites of the major CBF producers available in Italy. ...
Time-space for which CBFs are recommended starts too early and ends too late; protein content is adequate and even too high in some food; Amount of fats and their quality must be improved, keeping the...
Ultrasound has been used primarily as a tool for body composition measurement in the field of clinical nutrition. Although many recent reports have demonstrated that ultrasound could be a useful tool ...
Studies on ultrasonography, nutritionists, body composition, nutritional assessment, and diet therapy was searched using the MEDLINE databases....
After reviewing the articles, we categorized them into the following topics; 1) principles of muscle measurement using the ultrasound, types of muscle that can be measured, 2) indices of muscle and mu...
Ultrasound may be useful for RDs to perform body composition measurement, nutritional assessment, and nutritional management. It will be important to identify the cutoff values for ultrasound-based me...
Lack of a standardized method of identifying and defining pediatric malnutrition has led to an inability to fully understand the prevalence of and impact that malnutrition has on pediatric patients an...
Mobile food records are currently used to determine the nutrition of healthy subjects. To determine the accuracy of such records, we evaluated the nutritional composition of a test meal (noodles and f...
On the basis of determining isoelectric point of algae residue protein obtained from Scenedesmus dimorphus, this study investigated the effects of pH values, ratio of liquid to solid, extraction tempe...
Patients with cancer and malnutrition are more likely to experience poor treatment tolerance, prolonged length of hospital stay, and decreased quality of life. Early and sustained nutrition risk scree...
PubMed and international clinical practice guidelines....
Malnutrition represents an unbalanced nutritional state that alters body composition and diminishes function. Malnutrition is not always physically obvious, and albumin is not a reliable marker of nut...
All health care professionals can and should be responsible for preventing and treating malnutrition. Registered nurses can actively participate in improving patient outcomes by screening patients for...
Among elderly inpatients, malnutrition is one of the most important predictive factors affecting length of stay (LOS), mortality, and risk of re-hospitalization....
We conducted an observational, retrospective study on a cohort of 2206 acutely inpatients. Serum albumin and lymphocytes were evaluated. Instant Nutritional Assessment (INA) and the Prognostic Nutriti...
An inverse relationship between LOS, serum albumin, and PNI were found. Deceased patients had lower albumin levels, lower PNI values, and third- and fourth-degree INA scores. An accurate predictor of ...
PNI and INA are two simple and quick-to-calculate tools that can help in classifying the condition of hospitalized elderly patients also based on their nutritional status, or in assessing their mortal...