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Prevalence of malnutrition in a tertiary care hospital in India

INTRODUCTION: Malnutrition adversely affects clinical outcome of hospitalized patients. This observational prospective study was done to assess the prevalence of malnutrition and its grade among patients admitted in a mixed intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital in order to help devis...

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Autores principales: Chakravarty, Chandrashish, Hazarika, Babita, Goswami, Lawni, Ramasubban, Suresh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24082614
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.117058
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author Chakravarty, Chandrashish
Hazarika, Babita
Goswami, Lawni
Ramasubban, Suresh
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description INTRODUCTION: Malnutrition adversely affects clinical outcome of hospitalized patients. This observational prospective study was done to assess the prevalence of malnutrition and its grade among patients admitted in a mixed intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital in order to help devise a comprehensive nutrition program for the malnourished. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 500 sequential patients admitted to the ICU were screened on admission over a year period for malnutrition using the Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment (SGNA) score. Distribution of the degree of malnutrition according to co-morbidities was also documented. RESULTS: Of the total, 198 (39.6%) patients were malnourished, including one patient qualifying as severely malnourished; 68% patients were male, however, there was no statistically significant difference between nutrition status between sexes. Hypertension, diabetes, and cancer were the three most commonly encountered co-morbidities among the malnourished. A total of 86% of all cancer patients admitted were malnourished against only 12% of trauma patients. CONCLUSION: This study showed that almost two-fifth of the patients admitted were malnourished in this tertiary care hospital and that there is an urgent need to develop a comprehensive nutritional care program in many such Indian ICUs.
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spelling pubmed-37773712013-09-30 Prevalence of malnutrition in a tertiary care hospital in India Chakravarty, Chandrashish Hazarika, Babita Goswami, Lawni Ramasubban, Suresh Indian J Crit Care Med Short Communication INTRODUCTION: Malnutrition adversely affects clinical outcome of hospitalized patients. This observational prospective study was done to assess the prevalence of malnutrition and its grade among patients admitted in a mixed intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital in order to help devise a comprehensive nutrition program for the malnourished. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 500 sequential patients admitted to the ICU were screened on admission over a year period for malnutrition using the Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment (SGNA) score. Distribution of the degree of malnutrition according to co-morbidities was also documented. RESULTS: Of the total, 198 (39.6%) patients were malnourished, including one patient qualifying as severely malnourished; 68% patients were male, however, there was no statistically significant difference between nutrition status between sexes. Hypertension, diabetes, and cancer were the three most commonly encountered co-morbidities among the malnourished. A total of 86% of all cancer patients admitted were malnourished against only 12% of trauma patients. CONCLUSION: This study showed that almost two-fifth of the patients admitted were malnourished in this tertiary care hospital and that there is an urgent need to develop a comprehensive nutritional care program in many such Indian ICUs. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3777371/ /pubmed/24082614 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.117058 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Prevalence of malnutrition in a tertiary care hospital in India
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24082614
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.117058
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