Preoperative nutritional screening by the specialist instead of the nutritional risk score might prevent excess nutrition: a multivariate analysis of nutritional risk factors

Preoperative nutritional screening by the specialist instead of the nutritional risk score might prevent excess nutrition: a multivariate analysis of nutritional risk factors

BACKGROUND The aim of the current study was to assess whether widely used nutritional parameters are correlated with the nutritional risk score (NRS-2002) to identify postoperative morbidity and to evaluate the role of nutritionists in nutritional assessment. METHODS A randomized trial on preoperative nutritional interventions (NCT00512213) provided the study cohort of 152 patients at nutriti...

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Comparative nutrition evaluation with the Mini Nutritional Assessment and the Nutritional Risk Assessment Scale.

35 Malnutrition in geriatric hospital inpatients over 75 years old is one of the strongest indicators of a poor outcome, including mortality. A subjective rating of the nutritional status correlated strongly (p ! 0.001) with the subsequent mortality at follow-up times of 6, 18, and 30 months after discharge from hospital. Mortality was twice as high in malnourished patients as in normally nouri...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Assessing elderly at risk of malnutrition: the new Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index versus Nutritional Risk Index.

a w y r b G h t a p n N r N w a t r N S t t o b G G s s v s a l The present research letter aims to compare a recently alidated index of nutritional risk, the Geriatric Nutritional isk Index (GNRI), with the Nutritional Risk Index (NRI) s they relate to biochemical and anthropometric variables sually investigated during the assessment of nutritional tatus. Moreover, we will suggest a possible u...