BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There is no evidence on the most effective nutritional screening tool for hospitalized children. The objective of this study was to develop and validate a pediatric nutritional screening tool to assess undernutrition risk upon hospital admission. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN The study had a two-phase prospective observational design. A novel pediatric nutritional screeni...

INTRODUCTION malnutrition is a common complication for cancer patients. The phase angle (PA), direct measurement of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), has been considered a predictor of body cell mass and prognostic indicator. Cutoff points for phase angle (PA) associated with nutritional risk in cancer patients have not been determined yet. OBJECTIVES assess the possibility of determini...

Knowledge concerning nutritional status of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is limited. Nutritional Risk Screening-2002 (NRS-2002) has been used to evaluate the nutritional aspects of patients according to the recommendation of European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. Here we aim to assess the prevalence and characteristics of nutritional risk in CKD patients by using N...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Nutritional assessment in the elderly is difficult and different from that performed in younger people. There are specific tools for that purpose, such as the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI). The study objective was to compare this index to the Nutritional Risk Index (NRI). MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective, observational analytical study including 113 hos...

BACKGROUND The assessment of nutritional status in clinical practice must be done with simple, reliable, low cost and easy performance methods. The power of handshake is recognized as a useful tool to evaluate muscle strength, and therefore, it is suggested that can detect malnutrition. AIM To evaluate the nutritional status by subjective global assessment and power of handshake preoperativel...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of malnutrition and its relation to various factors in community-dwelling elderly with newly diagnosed Alzheimer's disease (AD). DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional study. SETTING Memory clinic in a rural part of the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 312 Community-dwelling AD patients, aged 65 years or older, were included. MEASUREMENTS At the time the di...

OBJECTIVE to prevent the occurrence of weight loss during hospitalisation and following discharge by daily oral supplementation. DESIGN in a prospective, randomised, controlled study of 80 patients aged 75 or more, and at risk of undernutrition based on their initial Mini Nutritional Assessment score, patients were randomised into a control group or one receiving oral supplementation. The int...

Nutritional status assessment of the critically ill patient is performed to classify nutritional status, identify nutritional risk and to serve as a baseline for monitoring nutrition support adequacy. Identification of nutritional risk indicates the need for nutrition support to maintain body functions and to facilitate recovery. It aids in preventing malnutrition by identifying patients who re...

Nutritional status assessment of the critically ill patient is performed to classify nutritional status, identify nutritional risk and to serve as a baseline for monitoring nutrition support adequacy. Identification of nutritional risk indicates the need for nutrition support to maintain body functions and to facilitate recovery. It aids in preventing malnutrition by identifying patients who re...