Background: Nutritional risk is relatively common in community-dwelling older people. Objective: To objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of individual dietary counseling as part of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment on nutritional status among community-dwelling people aged 75 years or older. Methods: Data were obtained from a subpopulation of participants in the population-bas...

OBJECTIVE Almost half of all hospitalized patients are malnourished with low physician awareness or implementation of nutrition support. To address this problem, a 2-day immersion course in clinical nutrition for physicians was developed by the Latin American Federation of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (FELANPE) with support from Abbott Laboratories. The goal of Total Nutritional Therapy (TN...

The few studies that have examined the association between usual sleep duration and cognitive function have shown conflicting results. This cross-sectional study examined the association between sleep duration and cognitive function among 3212 people, representative of the non-institutionalized population aged 60 years and over in Spain. Sleep duration was self-reported, and cognitive function ...

conclusions according to high prevalence of malnutrition in our patients with esrd undergoing hemodialysis, periodic assessment of nutritional status is necessary in them. meanwhile we found sga as the best tool to assess nutritional status in patients with esrd undergoing hemodialysis, because it can recognize various degrees of malnutrition that may remain undetected by a single laboratory as...

background : malnutrition represents an important issue in older adults; unfortunately, there is lack of data concerning this topic in lebanon. this paper aims to provide a description of nutritional status and its correlates in older adults living in long stay institutions situated in beirut. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted in three long stay institutions in beirut in 2012. ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the agreement between the results of the Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment questionnaire, adapted for children and adolescents of the Brazilian population, and the nutritional status assessment method through growth curves and the classification of the World Health Organization in a pediatric hospital service. METHODS This was an analytical, quantitative, cross-sect...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition can be considered the most common disease in hospitals due to its high prevalence. AIM To investigate the methods of evaluation of the nutritional status that better correlate with postoperative complications and the length of hospital stay in patients submitted to gastrointestinal or abdominal wall surgeries. METHODS This is a retrospective evaluation of 215 nutriti...

Children with cancer are in need of nutritional support to combat the catabolic effects of malignant tumors and debilita tion from surgical or other treatment and complicating infec tions and to maintain their immune system and other host defenses to combat cancer and infection. Also, growth must be supported in the child. Nutritional assessment should be an integral part of the care of the hos...