Assessment of malnutrition in patients with liver cirrhosis using protein calorie malnutrition (PCM) score verses bio-electrical impedance analysis (BIA)

OBJECTIVE: Malnutrition is a common problem in patients with liver cirrhosis and tools for nutritional assessment are under debate. We conducted this study to assess prevalence of malnutrition in cirrhotic patients using PCM score and BIA. Additionally we compared BIA to PCM score for detecting maln...

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Autores principales: Parkash, Om, Jafri, Wasim, Munir, S. M., Iqbal, Romaina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6071307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30068390
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3640-y

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