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Archivos de Bronconeumología ((English Edition)), 2007
Changes in nutritional status, such as weight loss and malnutrition, are a very common complication in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These changes primarily affect the patients' quality of life and functional capacity and they are also independent prognostic indicators of both morbidity and mortality. Malnutrition in these
Sergio, Alcolea Batres +2 more
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Changes in nutritional status, such as weight loss and malnutrition, are a very common complication in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These changes primarily affect the patients' quality of life and functional capacity and they are also independent prognostic indicators of both morbidity and mortality. Malnutrition in these
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Nursing Older People, 2009
Protein energy malnutrition is a frequent and serious problem in older people. Oral supplements help but their consumption often results in gastrointestinal disturbance. This approach also ignores the fact that eating has psychological, social and religious meaning and is not just about meeting a biological need.
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Protein energy malnutrition is a frequent and serious problem in older people. Oral supplements help but their consumption often results in gastrointestinal disturbance. This approach also ignores the fact that eating has psychological, social and religious meaning and is not just about meeting a biological need.
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Evaluation of Nutritional Status
Nursing Clinics of North America, 1989Most of the methods used for nutritional assessment provide information regarding body composition abnormalities. In addition to clinical evaluation, straight-forward physical measurements (such as body weight, anthropometric measures) and biochemical or immunological determinations are used.
S, Curtas, G, Chapman, M M, Meguid
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Serum albumin and nutritional status
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 1980Serum albumin concentration is frequently used to define nutritional status. To validate this relationship, 161 body composition studies were performed on 102 patients simultaneously with protein electrophoresis. The body cell mass represented by the exchangeable potassium to total body water ratio correlated significantly (p < 0.001) with the serum
R A, Forse, H M, Shizgal
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Nutritional Status in Childhood Malignancies
Nutrition and Cancer, 2002In children affected by tumor, nutritional status is important to sustain aggressive chemotherapy and to support normal growth during and after therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of nutritional status disorders in a sample of pediatric oncology day-hospital patients.
SCHIAVETTI, Amalia +4 more
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Assessment of nutritional status
Food and Cosmetics Toxicology, 1965My task is to introduce the topic of assessment of nutritional status and, whichever way I look at it, it is an awkward assignment. I have been twisting it in my head, this way and that, and think now that the subject is not so much the assessment of nutritional status as the ways of achieving the desirable nutritional status in experimental animals. I
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Screening of nutritional status in The Netherlands
Clinical Nutrition, 2003In 2001, the Dutch Dietetic Association conducted a national screening on malnutrition. The goal of this screening was to determine the prevalence of disease-related malnutrition in The Netherlands in all fields of medical care and to investigate the involvement of the dietitian in the treatment of malnutrition.Eight thousand five hundred and twenty ...
Kruizenga, H.M. +8 more
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Annals of Internal Medicine, 1985
Excerpt To the editor: I disagree with the way Kotler and associates (1) interpreted their nutritional measures.
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Excerpt To the editor: I disagree with the way Kotler and associates (1) interpreted their nutritional measures.
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Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional, 1994
The purpose of this article is to alert and inform the home healthcare nurse about the national focus on the unacceptably high levels of malnutrition in the elderly; its significance in patient outcome; the effort of the Nutrition Screening Initiative to help all healthcare professionals incorporate routine nutrition screening and intervention ...
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The purpose of this article is to alert and inform the home healthcare nurse about the national focus on the unacceptably high levels of malnutrition in the elderly; its significance in patient outcome; the effort of the Nutrition Screening Initiative to help all healthcare professionals incorporate routine nutrition screening and intervention ...
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MEASURES OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS
The Lancet, 1987A, Briend, M G, Rowland, B, Wojtyniak
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