PURPOSE OF REVIEW Hospital protein-energy malnutrition and its adverse consequences were already described back in 1980. The purpose of this review is to describe the current prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized children and to describe current risk groups. RECENT FINDINGS Different definitions have been used to describe malnutrition. According to WHO criteria, the SD score with a cutof...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a clinical state resulting in prolonged hospital stay, increase in severity of infections and poor wound healing. AIMS Our aim was to investigate the prevalence and etiologic factors of malnutrition in medical inpatients. STUDY DESIGN A total of 290 consecutively admitted internal medicine patients from February to May 2012 were included. On admission, demographic...

The prevalence of nutritional alterations in rheumatologic diseases ranges from 4 to 95%, depending on the detection method used. Formerly described as the single term rheumatoid cachexia, nutritional alterations can currently be grouped and subdivided based on the physiopathological mechanisms involved: chronic disease-related inflammatory conditions (cachexia), malnutrition associated to acut...

This study evaluated the prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) in children under five years (n = 52), in three randomly selected, State operated foster care institutions in Sri Lanka. The prevalence of PEM, was (51.9%), underweight (63.5%) and wasting (25.0%) was found to be considerably higher than the national prevalence (13.5%, 29.4%, 14.0%, respectively). Based on this preliminary...