background and objective: malnutrition is a very common clinical disorder risk factor in elderly people, which is not diagnosed in most cases and, therefore, remains untreated. the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of malnutrition in free-living elderly people and its relationship with socioeconomic factors (sef) in the elderly subjects in khorasan razavi province, iran. m...

OBJECTIVE Determine associations between the quality of life of mothers and the nutritional status of children. METHODS case-control study involving 152 mothers of children aged zero to five years, living in the coverage area of a basic health unit in the city of Porto Alegre. The calculation of sample size was estimated as 152 mothers - 76 mothers with children at nutritional risk/malnutriti...

introduction: patients with cystic fibrosis have increased risk of malnutrition. early detection of nutritional deterioration enables prompt intervention and correction. the aims of this project were to: - define the nutritional status of cf patients in iran and new zealand -    compare and contrast the macdonald nutritional screening tool  with the australasian guidelines for nutrition in cyst...

The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is recommended for grading nutritional status in the elderly. A new index for predicting the risk of nutrition-related complications, the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), was recently proposed but little is known about its possible use in the assessment of nutritional status. Thus, we aimed to investigate its ability to assess the nutritional status...

BACKGROUND A new analytical variation of bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA), called specific BIVA, has shown to be more accurate in detecting changes in fat mass than classic BIVA. OBJECTIVE To compare classic and specific BIVA in order to identify which is more strongly associated with psycho-functional and nutritional indicators in a group of institutionalised elderly patients w...

INTRODUCTION Quality indicators in nutritional therapy (QINTs) allow for the practical assessment of quality in the management of enteral nutrition therapy (ENT) among hospitalized patients. OBJECTIVE To control ENT quality in cancer patients at nutritional risk. METHODS A prospective, observational study was performed with cancer patients over 19 years of age who had undergone exclusive EN...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies in China and worldwide. Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy has inspiring therapeutic effect in treating colorectal cancer with high risk of recurrence. However, malnutrition is prevalent in patients with colorectal cancer and causes clinical deterioration. To investigate the impact of neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy on the nutritional status of ...

OBJECTIVES To delineate the difference in nutritional risk between older adults with normal cognitive function and mild cognitive impairment living in elderly homes. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Three elderly homes in Cairo, Egypt. PARTICIPANTS One hundred twenty older adults; men and women aged 60 years and older. MEASUREMENTS Comprehensive geriatric assessment was done for ev...

Introduction: Patients with Cystic Fibrosis have increased risk of malnutrition. Early detection of nutritional deterioration enables prompt intervention and correction. The aims of this project were to: - Define the nutritional status of CF patients in Iran and New Zealand -    Compare and contrast the MacDonald Nutritional Screening tool  with the Australasian guidelines for Nutrition in Cyst...

The present study aimed to develop and evaluate a nutritional and nursing risk assessment method for diabetic inpatients to improve healthcare and risk management. Diabetic inpatients diagnosed according to the World Health Organization guidelines, together with their nursing staff, were divided into two groups for nutritional and nursing risk assessment. Data from one group were used to establ...