The aim of this study was to measure insulin resistance (IR) in dialysis patients and its relation to Vitamin D status and nutritional parameters. We included patients on maintenance dialysis, both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis (HD and PD). IR was measured by homeostatic model assessment (HOMA)-IR index defined as fasting serum insulin (μU/L) × fasting blood sugar (mmol/L)/22.5. Baseline...

PURPOSE We examined the effects of 3 months of intensive education (IE) after hospital discharge compared to conventional education (CE) on nutritional status and quality of diet and life among South Korean gastrectomy patients. METHODS The study was conducted among 53 hospitalized gastrectomy in-patients (IE group, n = 28; CE group, n = 25) at Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong. Basel...

Objective: To determine the frequency of malnutrition among T2DM patients in tertiary care. Place and Duration Study: Departments Medicine Hayatabad medical complex peshawar Pakistan from jan 2020 to July 2021. Methodology: this Multi-center study conducted department medicine hmc hospital Peshawar total 130 were assessed for nutritional evaluation with assistance a nurse supporting staff. With...

BACKGROUND Protein-energy wasting is a common complication and an important predictive factor for mortality in chronic dialysis patients. Therefore, nutritional status needs to be regularly assessed in these patients, by using several methods, and, if malnutrition is present, its possible causes should be thoroughly searched for and properly treated. MATERIAL AND METHODS In 149 prevalent haem...

A multidimensional assessment of nutritional and health status comprised of subjective global assessment (SGA), anthropometry function, biochemistry, dietary intake, social and health aspects was carried out on 820 older people (52.8% men and 47.2% women) from four rural areas of Peninsular Malaysia. A proportion of the subjects had been classified as either overweight (25.7%) or chronic energy...

Malnutrition is widely prevalent among patients on hemodialysis. Malnutrition can be estimated using a fully quantitative scoring system Subjective Global Assessment-Dialysis Malnutrition Score which is simple, reliable and dynamic. The primary objective of the study was to assess the severity of malnutrition in patients with end stage renal disease and undergoing hemodialysis in a tertiary car...

INTRODUCTION Hospitalised elderly patients are at high risk of malnutrition due to the presence of chronic diseases and inadequate food intake. It was on this premise that a Malnutrition Risk Screening Tool-Hospital (MRST-H) was developed for identifying the risk of malnutrition among Malaysian elderly patients. METHODS A total of 181 respondents aged 65 years and above who had been admitted ...

OBJECTIVE To validate the Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment (SGNA) questionnaire for Brazilian children and adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional study with 242 patients, aged 30 days to 13 years, treated in pediatric units of a tertiary hospital with acute illness and minimum hospitalization of 24h. After permission from the authors of the original study, the following criteria were ...

OBJECTIVE The relationship between admission nutritional status and clinical outcomes following hospital discharge is not well established. This study investigated whether older patients' nutritional status at admission predicts unplanned readmission or death in the very early or late periods following hospital discharge. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The study prospectively recruited 297 ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the most potent bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) marker of malnutrition and to adjust its application to hemodialysis (HD) patients. DESIGN An observational study. SUBJECTS A total of 99 patients on maintenance HD were enrolled in the study. INTERVENTION The nutritional state of the patients was examined before and after the HD procedure using Subjective Globa...