BACKGROUND & AIMS Consensus on the definition of malnutrition has not yet been reached. Recently, The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) proposed a consensus definition of malnutrition. The aim of the present study was to describe the prevalence of malnutrition according to the ESPEN definition in four diverse populations. METHODS In total, 349 acutely ill middle-a...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the association survival with nutritional status, comorbidity and life quality patients locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) coexisting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Patients methods: This was performed 64 (6 female, 58 male) diagnosed NSCLC from March August 2015. Demographic features were evaluated Mini Nutritiona...

BACKGROUND AND AIM To provide a comprehensive quantitative assessment of nutritional status, digestion and absorption, and quality of life (QoL) in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). METHODS Sixteen patients with LAPC were prospectively assessed for weight loss (WL), body mass index (BMI), fat-free mass index (FFMI), handgrip strength (HGS), dietary macronutrient intake,...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a systemic disease that leads to weight loss and muscle dysfunction resulting in an increase in mortality. This study aimed to determine the prevalence rate of malnutrition and nutritional status and also factors associated with nutritional status. A total of 149 subjects were involved in the cross-sectional study. The study was conducted at two m...

Breastfeeding has been implicated in the establishment of infant appetite regulation, feeding patterns and body composition (BC). A holistic approach is required to elucidate relationships between infant and maternal BC and contributing factors, such as breastfeeding parameters. Associations between maternal and breastfed term infant BC (n = 20) and feeding parameters during first 12 months of ...

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often develop osteoporosis. Many hormones regulate bone metabolism and body composition, and some of them are affected in COPD patients vs controls. In 46 COPD patients, we measured hip neck, total hip, lumbar spine, and whole-body T-score with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, parameters of body composition (body mass index [BMI], fat ...

RATIONALE It has been shown that early nutrition intervention improves nutrition status (NS) and treatment tolerance in patients with esophageal cancer. However, it remains unknown whether pretreatment parameters of NS are associated with treatment modifications (TMs) during neoadjuvant chemoradiation (CR) in patients who are intensively nutritionally supervised during treatment. METHODS All ...

Body composition is sparsely described in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Body (BMI, mass/height in m(2)), fat-free (FFMI, lean mass/height in m(2)) and fat (FMI, fat mass/height in m(2)) mass indexes were estimated in 25 children (aged 5-18) with SMA (2 type I, 13 type II, 10 type III) using dual-energy radiograph absorptiometry and anthropometric data referenced to gender and age-matched healt...

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether weight-training-induced adaptations in body composition and isokinetic strength differ as a function of body build. Body build of a subject was characterized as the extent to which a person's fat-free mass index (FFMI = fat-free mass.height-2;kg.m-2) differs from the regression of FFMI over fat mass index (FMI = fat mass.height-2;kg.m-2) a...

Abstract Background A reduction in the absolute or relative mass of lean tissue muscle context disease and/or malnutrition are well-described features associated with poor prognosis. Conversely, excessive adiposity may lead to metabolic disease, increased inflammation and has been linked adverse CD outcomes. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) allows estimation fat-mass index (FMi kg/m2) fat...