Malnutrition is still a largely unrecognized problem in hospitals. Malnutrition in hospitalized patients is generally related to increasing morbidity and mortality, and costs and length of stay. The ...

Nutritional status assessment in hospitalised children is a critical component of paediatric care, as malnutrition is strongly associated with adverse clinical outcomes such as extended hospital stays ...

The prognosis was worse in patients with basic dementia or Alzheimers disease as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma. A new study has found a correlation between poor nutritional ...

Efficacy and safety of MCLA-129, an anti-EGFR/c-MET bispecific antibody, in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with c-METexon 14 skipping mutations (METex14). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

Human body composition measurements such as fat and fat-free mass play a critical role in qualifying health and nutritional status, the impact of disease, and change due to nutritional, therapeutic, ...

The Nutrition Assessment Lab is dedicated to evaluating and improving nutritional health through cutting-edge tools and evidence-based methods. The lab provides you with hands-on experience using ...

Credit: Getty Images A full nutrition assessment must be undertaken and, from there, appropriate interventions can be developed and monitored for improved health outcomes. Albumin may be informative ...

A substantial proportion of patients hospitalised with chronic heart failure (HF) were at risk for malnutrition, which was associated with elevated odds of frailty — and frailty, in turn, was linked ...

LA PAZ, Honduras -- Service members and medical personnel performed an ongoing pediatric nutritional assessment of three villages within Department of La Paz, Honduras, from Nov. 7 to 9, 2017. Joint ...

Recent research identified spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)–specific growth percentiles, aiming to improve clinical management of the nutritional aspects of the disease. Due to the nature of SMA, the ...

In a recent review published in the journal BMC Global and Public Health, researchers explored the current evidence on nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (N-AIDS). They discussed why ...