Prevalence of protein.energy malnutrition and nutritional evolution in hospitalized patients
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0367.1995v16n2p219Keywords:
Nutritional assessement, Hospital malnutrition.Abstract
The nutritional assessment by anthropometric and blood components was undertaken in 92 adult patients, 61 males and 31 females, sulfuring from gastrointestinal (19%), câncer (18%), cardiovascular (12%), chronic: hepatic (11%) diseases and others. The nutritional evaluation was repeated at the entry and at the discharge of the hospitalization which lasted 15 days. The under nutrition at the admission was of 6096 and at the discharge of 72%. Under nutrition was higher in patients with peptic ulcer (100%) and cancer (70,6%). Protein somatic involvement was higher than the fat stores. 7hus, the prevalence of under nutrition Is high in Internal Medicine wards and despite clinical improvement there was no concomitant Improvement of the nutritional status.
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