BACKGROUND & AIMS Malnutrition is very common in patients when admitted to the hospital. The aim of the present study was: a) to determine the prevalence of malnutrition at admission in a tertiary care hospital and identify risk factors for malnutrition, and b) to test the sensitivity and specificity of different screening tests for malnutrition compared to subjective global assessment (SGA). ...

Summary Background The prevalence of malnutrition in cancer patients ranges from about 20% to more than 70%. However, 10–20% patients’ deaths are related malnutrition, not the malignancy itself. To reverse pattern weight loss, improve quality life, reduce treatment toxicity, psychological stress and risk mortality, diagnosis should be made as early possible facilitate best treatment. Methods A ...

OBJECTIVE To discuss whether nutritional risk screening 2002 (NRS2002) is appropriate for nutritional risk screening for leukemia patients before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), and whether there are risk differences in other conditions, such as age, gender and matching degree; to find the methods and indicators of nutritional risk screening for these patients before a...

Abstract INTRODUCTION Preoperative nutritional status is a predictive modifiable factor of survival in gastrointestinal oncology surgery. The aim the study was to analyze influence risk (NR) on patients undergoing gastric cancer (GC) MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective 50 with adenocarcinoma who underwent surgery over 2-year period. To identify malnutrition, malnutrition criteria European Societ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The main objective of the PREDyCES study was twofold. First, to analyse the prevalence of hospital malnutrition in Spain, both at admission and at discharge, and second, to estimate the hospital costs associated with disease-related malnutrition. METHODS The study was a nationwide, cross-sectional, observational, multicentre study in routine clinical practice, which assess...

AIM OF THE STUDY Cancer is usually associated with impaired nutritional status, which is one of the factors contributing to the deterioration of the results of surgery, chemotherapy, or radiotherapy. The aim of this study was the assessment of the nutritional status of patients with CRC qualified to chemotherapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seventy-five persons aged 40-86 years with colorectal cance...

According to WHO data, in 2016 the number of adults with excess body weight exceeded 1.9 billion (39 % inhabitants our planet over age 18), which more than 650 million (13 %) suffer from obesity. Due high prevalence, doctors meet and patients overweight obesity, they need nutritional correction at pre-hospital stage. Obesity as a result overeating, but paradoxically, can be accompanied by defic...