Malnutrition

Children who experienced a residential move because of unaffordable rents, evictions or foreclosures were also likely to lose access to safety net programs, researchers reported in Pediatrics.

More than 20% of patients undergoing surgery for head and neck cancer are malnourished, according to data published in JAMA Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery.

According to results published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, patients who underwent surgery for a femoral fragility fracture lost an average of 2.4 kg or 9% of skeletal muscle mass at 6 weeks after injury.

Results from a newly published study indicate that an adaptive nutritional and educational intervention may effectively stabilize serum phosphorus levels in adults receiving hemodialysis.

Surgical outcomes are affected by key factors that orthopedic surgeons assess before and during the episode of care.

Patients with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease who receive nintedanib demonstrate a higher risk for malnutrition, compared with placebo, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Women admitted with ACS at risk for malnutrition had a more than sixfold higher odds for in-hospital mortality compared with women not at malnutrition risk, researchers reported.

In patients with HF and severe secondary mitral regurgitation, transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair reduced mortality and HF hospitalization regardless of whether patients had malnutrition, new data from the COAPT trial show.

A composite biomarker score derived from six metabolites that indicate malnutrition or inflammation provided strong stratification of all-cause mortality in two large, independent cohorts that underwent cardiac catheterization, data show.

Researchers in Denmark reported a high prevalence of unplanned weight loss in outpatients with COPD, with shortness of breath, reduced appetite and nausea among the most common nutrition impact symptoms.