Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Heather H. Keller, Safura Syed, Hana Dakkak, Sarah A. Wu, Dorothee Volkert
Summary: Poor food and fluid intake are common problems in long-term care, and institutional factors are partially responsible. Evidence-based guidelines can provide best practices, but feasibility and environmental factors must be considered in implementation. Relationships among residents, family members, and staff offer opportunities for improving nutrition.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Grace C. Barcus, Peggy C. Papathakis, Andrew Schaffner, Bernadette Chimera
Summary: This study found that there is limited data on hospital malnutrition in low-income countries and that reported dietary intake and disease state of hospitalized adults may not be directly linked to malnutrition identified by mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC). However, there is a notable nutrient gap in hospital menus and a need for increased dietetic/nutrition services to prevent and treat malnutrition.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Doris Hui Lan Ng, Frederick Hong Xiang Koh, Hazel Ee Ling Yeong, Terence Cheong Wei Huey, Koy Min Chue, Fung Joon Foo, Samuel Teong Huang Chew
Summary: This paper aims to provide evidence-based best-practice recommendations to improve the nutritional status of hospitalized patients and enhance clinical outcomes after discharge through a comprehensive team approach and individualized nutrition care plans.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Suzette L. Pereira, Marni E. Shoemaker, Susan Gawel, Gerard J. Davis, Menghua Luo, Vikkie A. Mustad, Joel T. Cramer
Summary: Malnutrition and sarcopenia often coexist and have negative health outcomes. Previous studies have shown that chronic supplementation with oral nutritional supplements (ONS) enriched with protein, vitamin D, and beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) can improve muscle strength and quality in malnourished sarcopenic older adults. This study aims to understand the underlying biological mechanisms contributing to the early strength benefits of HMB-enriched ONS. The results suggest that multiple biological systems are impacted by nutritional intervention and that incremental biomarker changes may be linked to improvements in skeletal muscle health.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Beatrice Gasperini, Gilda Pelusi, Annamaria Frascati, Ilenia Carletta, Franco Dolcini, Donatella Sarti, Emma Espinosa, Emilia Prospero
Summary: The study compared the rates of identifying undernutrition in older patients before and after introducing the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA (R)) in a community hospital, finding that the introduction of MNA (R) significantly increased the identification of undernutrition. It suggests that undernutrition should be systematically screened using validated tools for prompt personalized nutritional interventions.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Julia Hilbrands, Mary Beth Feuling, Aniko Szabo, Bi Q. Teng, Nicole Fabus, Melissa Froh, Rebecca Heisler, Olivia Lampone, Amber Smith, Theresa A. Mikhailov, Praveen S. Goday
Summary: In pediatric intensive care units, malnutrition screening is crucial for critically ill children. The Children's Wisconsin Nutrition Screening Tool (CWNST) is a more sensitive tool compared to the Pediatric Nutrition Screening Tool (PNST) and can predict nutrition risk in PICU patients through electronic medical records.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Baojun Duan, Yan Zhang, Xi Wang, Yulian Zhang, Yinyin Hou, Jun Bai, Linhua Liu, Yaohua Chen, Rong Zhang, Ronghui Jin, Li He, Yansong Pu
Summary: By combining megestrol acetate (MA) with oral nutrition supplements (ONS), significant improvements were observed in body mass index, quality of life scores, and other related indicators for lung cancer-related malnutrition patients, with low and acceptable toxicity levels.
FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION
(2021)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Aisling A. Geraghty, Laura McBean, Sarah Browne, Patricia Dominguez Castro, Ciara M. E. Reynolds, David Hanlon, Gerard Bury, Margaret O'Neill, Sarah Clarke, Barbara Clyne, Karen Finnigan, Laura McCullagh, Sharon Kennelly, Clare A. Corish
Summary: This study retrospectively analyzed pharmacy claim data of adult patients in primary care in Ireland in 2018 and found that younger males and patients in residential care were the higher users of oral nutritional supplements. Further research should focus on elucidating the reasons for high usage of oral nutritional supplements in residential care patients and younger males.
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Yasukazu Kanie, Akihiko Okamura, Aya Fujihara, Hiromi Matsuo, Suguru Maruyama, Kei Sakamoto, Daisuke Fujiwara, Jun Kanamori, Yu Imamura, Koshi Kumagai, Masayuki Watanabe
Summary: After esophagectomy, 23.5% of patients require long-term placement of feeding enterostomy, which is primarily associated with older age, poor performance status, and lower preoperative body weight.
ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM
(2022)
Article
Pediatrics
Nithit Semsawat, Oraporn Dumrongwongsiri, Phanphen Phoonlapdacha
Summary: Nutrition screening using STRONGkids was implemented in a tertiary-care hospital in Bangkok, Thailand to detect malnutrition risks in hospitalized children. The study found that STRONGkids had low sensitivity and specificity in detecting nutrition risks.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kaylen J. Pfisterer, Robert Amelard, Audrey G. Chung, Braeden Syrnyk, Alexander MacLean, Heather H. Keller, Alexander Wong
Summary: Malnutrition is a significant problem in long-term care (LTC) settings, but monitoring nutritional intake is challenging. This study introduces a fully automatic imaging system for quantifying food intake, which provides improved objectivity, accuracy, and precision, and has the potential to address the limitations of automated malnutrition detection in LTC and hospital settings.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Carlos Seron-Arbeloa, Lorenzo Labarta-Monzon, Jose Puzo-Foncillas, Tomas Mallor-Bonet, Alberto Lafita-Lopez, Nestor Bueno-Vidales, Miguel Montoro-Huguet
Summary: Malnutrition has a negative impact on patients' quality of life and health outcomes. Early identification and adequate nutritional support are crucial in preventing and reversing malnutrition. Nutritional screening is the first step in identifying at-risk patients, while nutritional assessment provides a more detailed evaluation of the type and degree of malnutrition.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Almudena Perez-Torres, M. Elena Gonzalez Garcia, Marta Ossorio-Gonzalez, Laura Alvarez Garcia, M. Auxiliadora Bajo, Gloria del Peso, Ana Castillo Plaza, Rafael Selgas
Summary: Individualized nutrition education for patients with end-stage kidney disease has long-term positive effects on nutritional status, reducing hospitalizations, and increasing survival rates. Patients who did not receive nutritional interventions had higher mortality odds ratio.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Joanna Ostrowska, Isabella Sulz, Silvia Tarantino, Michael Hiesmayr, Dorota Szostak-Wegierek
Summary: The study evaluated the prevalence of malnutrition and nutritional risk factors in hospital wards across 25 European countries and found that the prevalence of malnutrition in Polish patients was slightly lower than in the European reference group. However, certain aspects of nutritional care process in Polish hospitals were found to be insufficient and require more attention.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Miriam Theilla, Pierre Singer, Boaz Tadmor, Itai Bendavid, Moran Hellerman, Ilya Kagan
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the impact of providing nutritional support through regular meal delivery and assistance during meals on clinical outcomes in patients discharged from the hospital suffering from disease-related and socioeconomic malnutrition. The results showed that this intervention significantly reduced mortality rates and improved depression and anxiety scores in patients.
CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Barbara Chaves Santos, Ana Luisa Ferreira Fonseca, Livia Garcia Ferreira, Helem Sena Ribeiro, Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia, Agnaldo Soares Lima, Francisco Guilherme Cancela e Penna, Lucilene Rezende Anastacio
Summary: This study assessed the impact of malnutrition according to the GLIM criteria on the outcomes of patients awaiting liver transplant and compared these criteria with Subjective Global Assessment. The majority of GLIM combinations had poor agreement with SGA, and 4 of the 36 GLIM combinations were independently associated with adverse outcomes.
CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Barbara Chaves Santos, Livia Garcia Ferreira, Helem Sena Ribeiro, Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia, Agnaldo Soares Lima, Francisco Guilherme Cancela E Penna, Lucilene Rezende Anastacio
Summary: This study aimed to assess patients on the waiting list for liver transplant using bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) and determine the association between vector placement on the graph and clinical outcomes. The study found that patients with vectors placed in quadrant 4 (Q4) had a worse prognosis.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Natalia Cristina de Faria, Ana Paula da Costa Soares, Guilherme Fonseca Graciano, Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia, Virginia del Carmen T. Valenzuela, Lucilene Rezende Anastacio
Summary: This study aimed to analyze the effect of green tea on energy expenditure, satiety response, and food intake in humans. The results showed that ingestion of green tea with a standardized breakfast increased energy expenditure and feelings of hunger, but had no significant impact on substrate oxidation and respiratory quotient. There were no significant differences in food intake energy and macronutrients between green tea and water treatments.
CLINICAL NUTRITION ESPEN
(2022)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Maria Isabel T. D. Correia, Kelly A. Tappenden, Ainsley Malone, Carla M. Prado, David C. Evans, Abby C. Sauer, Refaat Hegazi, Leah Gramlich
Summary: Despite various published diagnostic criteria, the diagnosis of malnutrition remains a challenge. In 2018, the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) published evidence-based criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition in adults. This scoping review examined how the GLIM criteria have been used in published literature and compared the reported validation methods to published validation guidance.
CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Diana Cardenas, Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia, Gil Hardy, Juan B. Ochoa, Albert Barrocas, Regis Hankard, Isabelle Hannequart, Stephane Schneider, Charles Bermudez, Karin Papapietro, Teresa Pounds, Cristina Cuerda, Winai Ungpinitpong, Annae-Lena du Toit, Rocco Barazzoni
Summary: This paper aims to analyze the implications of nutritional care as a human right for healthcare practitioners and explore the utilization of the Human Rights Basic Approach (HRBA) in clinical practice.
CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Emily Belcher, David Mercer, Bram P. Raphael, Gregory D. Salinas, Sylvie Stacy, Kelly A. Tappenden
Summary: This study aimed to identify unmet educational needs related to the management of patients with SBS-IF. The survey results showed disparities in knowledge and practice among healthcare professionals regarding SBS-IF, including diagnosis, management goals, medications prescribed, and nutrition practices. Future educational interventions should aim to improve awareness and understanding of the disease, facilitate timely diagnosis, and standardize management practices.
JOURNAL OF PARENTERAL AND ENTERAL NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Rocco Barazzoni, Gordon L. Jensen, Maria Isabel T. D. Correia, Maria Cristina Gonzalez, Takashi Higashiguchi, Han Ping Shi, Stephan C. Bischoff, Yves Boirie, Fernando Carrasco, Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft, Vanessa Fuchs-Tarlovsky, Ryoji Fukushima, Steve Heymsfield, Marina Mourtzakis, Maurizio Muscaritoli, Kristina Norman, Ibolya Nyulasi, Veeradej Pisprasert, Carla Prado, Marian de van der Schuren, Sadao Yoshida, Yanchun Yu, Tommy Cederholm, Charlene Compher
Summary: The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) provides consensus criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition that can be widely applied. The GLIM approach includes the assessment of three phenotypic and two etiologic criteria, with the possibility of using different methods to evaluate skeletal muscle mass. However, the assessment of muscle mass is not commonly performed and may be challenging in settings with limited resources.
JOURNAL OF PARENTERAL AND ENTERAL NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Diana Cardenas, Maria Isabel T. Davisson Correia, Gil Hardy, Juan B. Ochoa, Albert Barrocas, Regis Hankard, Isabelle Hannequart, Stephane Schneider, Charles Bermudez, Karin Papapietro, Teresa Pounds, Cristina Cuerda, Winai Ungpinitpong, Anna-Lena du Toit, Rocco Barazzoni
Summary: This article aims to analyze the implications of nutritional care as a human right for healthcare practitioners. Ethics and human rights are guiding values for clinical nutrition practitioners, ensuring a patient-centered approach.
NUTRITION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
(2022)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Gustavo Diaz, Maria Isabel T. D. Correia, Maria Cristina Gonzalez, Mariana Reyes
Summary: This study investigated the use and validity of the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria in adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The results showed that 15%-68% of patients were diagnosed with malnutrition using the GLIM criteria, while 48%-75% of malnourished patients were identified with the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA). However, the use and validity of the GLIM criteria in the ICU is still limited and further studies are needed for validation.
CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2023)
Editorial Material
Nutrition & Dietetics
Diana Cardenas, M. Isabel T. D. Correia, Gil Hardy, Leah Gramlich, Tommy Cederholm, Annemieke Van Ginkel-Res, Wineke Remijnse, Albert Barrocas, Juan B. Ochoa Gautier, Olle Ljungqvist, Winnai Ungpinitpong, Rocco Barazzoni
Summary: To promote a human rights-based approach in the field of clinical nutrition, the International Working Group for Patient's Right to Nutritional Care launched the International Declaration on the Human Right to Nutritional Care in Vienna. This non-legally binding document sets a shared vision and five principles for actions that would promote access to nutritional care. Implementation programs should be based on international normative frameworks such as the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Rome Declaration, and the Working Plan of the Decade of Action on Nutrition.
CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Bernardo Faria Levindo Coelho, Thales Antonio da Silva, Alida Rosaria Silva Ferreira, Leonardo Lamego Resende, Luciana Costa-Silva, Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the nutritional status of cancer patients and standard uptake values (SUV) in PET/CT imaging. The results showed that severely malnourished patients had lower hepatic SUVmean and higher tumor SUVmax in PET/CT imaging compared to well-nourished patients.
NUTRITION AND CANCER-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(2022)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Kelly A. A. Tappenden
Summary: Short bowel syndrome-associated intestinal failure is a complex and life-threatening condition that requires comprehensive care to address the multiple factors affecting the patient's long-term prognosis.
NUTRITION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Nutrition & Dietetics
Diana Cardenas, M. Isabel T. D. Correia, Gil Hardy, Leah Gramlich, Tommy Cederholm, Annemieke Van Ginkel-Res, Wineke Remijnse, Albert Barrocas, Juan B. Ochoa Gautier, Olle Ljungqvist, Winnai Ungpinitpong, Rocco Barazzoni
NUTRITION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Kelly Tappenden
JOURNAL OF PARENTERAL AND ENTERAL NUTRITION
(2022)
