Malnutrition

CHICAGO ⁠— In this video, Healio Primary Care Peer Perspective Board Member Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS, discusses her presentations on obesity from the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

Malnutrition is associated with poor kidney function, increased risk of kidney function decline and chronic kidney disease among older adults without advanced kidney disease, according to data published in the Journal of Renal Nutrition.

A newly developed malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome score revealed an association between a high score and increased risks of bone-cardiovascular axis disorders in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis.

Use of a universal nutritional screening tool may help identify patients with inflammatory bowel disease who are at high risk for malnutrition and other adverse outcomes, according to data presented at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.

Exclusive enteral nutrition intervention improved malnutrition and disease status among pediatric patients with very early-onset inflammatory bowel disease, according to a speaker.

Renal replacement therapy was insufficient for protein delivery in critically ill children with congenital heart disease, according to a single-center retrospective cohort study in Journal of Renal Nutrition.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a variety of changes in the nutritional care provided to patients receiving hemodialysis across the United States, according to results of a survey administered to 191 dialysis dieticians.

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For patients with COVID-19, at 3- and 6-months, malnutrition was the most persistent gastrointestinal sequalae, according to a study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.