Antonio Becerra-Fernández

Endocrinology Department. University Hospital “Ramón y Cajal”, Madrid, Spain

[ 1 ] - CONUT: A Useful Alarm of Malnutrition in the Centralized Laboratory of a Spanish Hospital

Background: Hospital malnutrition, usually secondary to various diseases and their treatments, is an important problem in our clinical practice. For its proper assessment, it is crucial to use a nutritional alert system, such as the CONUT (COntrol NUTrition) program; this tool uses 3 analytical parameters: serum albumin, total cholesterol, and total lymphocyte count. <str...