ALLMedicine™ Malnutrition Center

Mar 20th, 2023 - In a cohort of hospitalized children with congenital heart disease (CHD), a new digital pediatric malnutrition screening tool as a mobile application was validated, and its effectiveness and clinical value were determined as a prospective study. C...

Mar 19th, 2023 - Raw bioelectrical impedance measurements are often used as a prognosticator of health status because of their association with disease states and malnutrition. Although studies consistently show the effect of physical characteristics on bioelectri...

Mar 19th, 2023 - Patients with neurocognitive impairment (NI) have multiple medical needs, with respiratory problems leading to an important reduction in quality of life and life expectancy. We aimed to explain that the origin of chronic respiratory symptoms in pa...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Preoperative malnutrition is associated with postoperative complications, prolonged intensive care unit stay, and mortality, leading to functional disability after non-cardiac surgery. However, its effects on cardiac and thoracic aortic surgery ou...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Malnutrition has been reported to lead to poor postoperative outcomes. The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria were published in 2019 as a global consensus on the criteria for diagnosing malnutrition. However, the relation...

Sep 23rd, 2022 - The purpose of this expert review is to summarize the diagnosis and management of refractory celiac disease. It will review evaluation of patients with celiac disease who have persistent or recurrent symptoms, differential diagnosis, nutritional s...

Sep 20th, 2022 - It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that, based upon current evidence, the Malnutrition Screening Tool should be used to screen adults for malnutrition (undernutrition) regardless of their age, medical history, or setting....

Sep 20th, 2022 - Refeeding hypophosphatemia in hospitalized adolescents with anorexia nervosa is correlated with degree of malnutrition, with a high index of suspicion for severely malnourished patients (<70% median body mass index). Weight history (greater magnit...

Sep 5th, 2022 - The medical provider plays an important role in the management of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with restrictive eating disorders (EDs), including anorexia nervosa (AN), atypical anorexia nervosa, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorde...

Mar 21st, 2022 - Malnutrition and dehydration are widespread in older people, and obesity is an increasing problem. In clinical practice, it is often unclear which strategies are suitable and effective in counteracting these key health threats. To provide evidence...

Mar 10th, 2023 - The prevalence of malnutrition in cancerous patients varies between 50% and 80%. It is variable in function: the location and the extension of the tumor, of the general state , of age, of the socio-economic class and the pain. The health consequen...

Mar 10th, 2023 - The aim of this study is to contribute to the improvement of the hematological management of elderly patients. Indeed, the majority of hematological malignancies are diagnosed in subjects aged 65 years and over. Hematologists are therefore increas...

Mar 10th, 2023 - The gut microbiome (community of microorganisms in the intestines) serves many important roles in healthy people, including immune system regulation and anti-inflammatory functions. A dysbiosis (imbalance) in the gut microbiome is associated with ...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease for which skin tightness is the hallmark. The disease is classified into 2 major subsets: limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (lcSSc) and diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) dependi...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Neurogenic dysphagia occurs with disruption of neurological systems or processes involved in the execution of coordinated and safe swallowing. It is common in patients with neurological diseases, in particular in patients treated in Intensive Care...

Jan 30th, 2023 - Higher protein doses did not improve critically ill patient outcomes, and may even be detrimental to patients with high organ failure and acute kidney injury, the EFFORT trial found. In nutritionally high-risk adults undergoing mechanical ventilat...

Dec 30th, 2022 - In children with cystic fibrosis (CF) and homozygous for the F508 mutation, the combination of lumacaftor and ivacaftor appears generally safe, and biomarker data suggest its efficacy, according to results from a new open-label phase 3 trial. In S.

Nov 29th, 2022 - Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I'm Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. If you've watched this space over the years, you'll know that I'm not the biggest proponent of vitamin D supple...

Oct 31st, 2022 - GENEVA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Tigray region has run out of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics and insulin, World Health Organization officials said on Friday, warning that many deaths were probably going unrecorded from preventable and...

Oct 26th, 2022 - BUNDUNG, Gambia/LONDON (Reuters) - Clutching an umbrella, medical records and her two-year-old daughter, Kani Fall negotiated the brown puddles lapping at the hospital gate, the final hurdle in a two-hour, rain-soaked journey to her nearest vaccin...