Oncology patients often experience the classic signs of malnutrition—weight loss as well as fat and muscle wasting, which have been associated with poor tolerance to treatment and increased morbidity and mortality. Nutrition status may be an important factor in determining tolerance to treatment and ...
Using 'MUST', the overall prevalence of malnutrition was 9.9% (n = 31) comprising 6.7% at medium risk and 3.2% at high risk. There were 21.8% of participants (n = 68) rated at risk of overall malnutrition by the Patients Association Nutrition Checklist. Moderate agreement was observed ...
Severe malnutrition is responsible for the deaths of millions of children every year. Even when such children are admitted to hospital, up to one in five of them will die. Research published in PLoS Medicine has shown that certain clinical signs in severely malnourished children can predict those...
JI-LIAN CAI, MD: I think in some of the rare presentations of chronic GVHD, it's missed until the patient becomes very sick. For instance, they will have...diarrhea and after many episodes [we'll see GVHD], or they've been coming in with malnutrition... These are the [patients who...
Comorbidities can be limited by providing for malnutrition. An early dietary follow-up can be set up and will allow for checking if food intake is adequate. Performing regular anthropometric assessments is very important. Even with the challenges in the evaluation to obtain simple measures like ...
Some factors increase the risk of confusion from an immediate medical problem. These include:7 Advanced age Dehydration Intensive medical interventions (e.g., staying in the intensive care unit or recent surgery) Malnutrition Retaining urineor stool ...
Objective:Although HIV infection, severe malnutrition and hypoxaemia are associated with high mortality in children with WHO-defined severe pneumonia in sub-Saharan Africa, many do not have these conditions and yet mortality remains elevated compared with high-resource settings. Further stratifying ...