Söderström, L. 2016. Nutritional Screening of Older Adults. Risk Factors for and Consequences of Malnutrition. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1167. 83 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9435-3. Aims The overall aim of this thesis was to extend current knowledge about the prevalence of malnutrition, to identify poss...

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 & Aims: In Belgium, general data on the prevalence of malnutrition are lacking. Prevalence rates are necessary to gain insight into the magnitude of malnutrition and to establish a nutrition policy that takes the limited health care resources into account. This study aimed to obtain insight into the prevalence of malnutrition in Belgian elderly hospital wards and to identify factors ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Malnutrition is a serious concern for children with cancer and nutrition screening may offer a simple alternative to nutrition assessment for identifying children with cancer who are at risk of malnutrition. The present paper aimed to evaluate the nutrition screening tool for childhood cancer (SCAN). METHODS SCAN was developed after an extensive review of currently available...

BACKGROUND Disease-related malnutrition is highly prevalent in hospital patients and varies from 25-40%. Early nutritional screening of patients at admission helps to improve recognition of malnourished patients to allow early interventions and enhance clinical outcomes. METHOD A total of 104 preoperative surgical patients with oesophageal (34), stomach (17) or pancreatic cancer (53) were rec...

OBJECTIVE Guatemala is a country severely affected by malnutrition, particularly in its child population. The present study aimed to assess the impact of recognised aetiological factors on the prevalence of malnutrition and to establish the efficacy of a Guatemalan malnutrition clinic by examining the changes in the prevalence of malnutrition in the ten surrounding communities served by the cli...

OBJECTIVE Elderly people may be at particular risk of Zn deficiency due to an increased prevalence of malnutrition. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the Zn status in community-living elderly people at risk of malnutrition. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based survey. Individuals at risk of malnutrition were identified by the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool. Zn status was ...

Malnutrition continues to be one of the world’s most serious development problems. Exacerbating the consequences of infectious disease, malnutrition contributes to about 6 million deaths annually of children under 5. While lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) bear the brunt of the problem, malnutrition affects both rich and poor countries, particularly the poorest in each nation. In developed...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The prevalence of malnutrition among patients with heart failure and the role it might play in prognosis is not currently known. The aim of this study was to analyse the prevalence and risk of malnutrition as well as its possible influence on long-term mortality in patients with heart failure. METHODS A prospective analysis was conducted on 208 patients discharged ...

Prevalences of malnutrition and overweight among children under five years and its association with socioeconomic, demographic and health indicators were estimated for the six largest municipalities of Maranhão, in 2006/2007. By means of a household survey, a sample of 1214 children under five years of age was randomly selected. Two-stage cluster sampling was used, representing the six municipa...