A comprehensive review assessed the ways that proper nutrition could help reduce the adverse effects of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with hepatic encephalopathy. A recent review published in the ...

Nutritional status assessment in hospitalised children is a critical component of paediatric care, as malnutrition is strongly associated with adverse clinical outcomes such as extended hospital stays ...

A novel model for gauging nutritional risk among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) showed high accuracy and may provide a simpler, more targeted alternative to currently used nutritional ...

The Nutrition Assessment Lab is dedicated to evaluating and improving nutritional health through cutting-edge tools and evidence-based methods. The lab provides you with hands-on experience using ...

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Racial and ethnic disparities in presentation, treatment, and outcomes for minority populations with diagnosis of lung cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting I.

The newest KDOQI guideline for renal nutrition, which took 5 years to develop, expands recommendations to include patients with all stages of chronic kidney disease. The National Kidney Foundation ...

Malnutrition is an imbalance between the growth and breakdown of body tissues and nutrient stores, resulting in loss of muscle and organ mass, diminished physical and mental functioning, and impaired ...

The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) and systemic oxidative stress (SOS) score are independently associated with poorer prognosis of low-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), according to a study ...

Credit: Getty Images A full nutrition assessment must be undertaken and, from there, appropriate interventions can be developed and monitored for improved health outcomes. Albumin may be informative ...

Note: This press release has been altered from its original version to correct the citations that appear in the fifth paragraph. Four leading organizations in lifestyle medicine, obesity medicine, and ...