Malnutrition

Blood trace element levels, specifically copper, zinc and selenium, showed associations with nutritional risk for patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis in China.

Malnutrition correlated with increased hospital mortality and infections in patients with alcoholic hepatitis, according to a presenter at The Liver Meeting Digital Experience.

Malnutrition, a common risk factor in patients with ACS, was strongly linked to increased CV events and mortality, researchers found.

Researchers from Australia found taste changes are highly prevalent, but under-recognized, in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Further, these taste changes were linked with gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea and vomiting.

Researchers from Turkey have identified a link between reduced muscle mass, as measured by hand grip strength, and malnutrition in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis.

Patients with an acute osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture and hypoalbuminemia based on preoperative serum albumin levels were statistically more likely to develop major complications, such as sepsis, septic shock, pulmonary embolism, reintubation and prolonged intubation, according to study results.

Neural circuitry dysfunction may be associated with prolonged periods of extremely restricted food intake and food avoidance among patients with anorexia nervosa, according to study results published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

One third of low- and middle-income countries have overlapping forms of extreme malnutrition, particularly in south and east Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific, according to a series of reports published in The Lancet.

Rising temperatures, declining crop yields, air pollution and other adverse environmental outcomes of climate change pose a threat to the long-term health of children, according to The Lancet’s annual update on health and climate change.

Among women living with HIV, study findings showed that food insecurity was associated with lower ART concentrations in hair, suggesting that it impacts ART adherence and/or drug absorption, researchers said.