Nutritional status in hospital inpatients: implications for nutritional support services.
In a population of 473 inpatients, a profile of nutritional status from obesity to marasmic-kwashiokor was observed. Thirty-two per cent of the population were overweight or obese (n = 153), forty-five per cent were of normal weight (n = 211), 8% were at risk of protein-energy malnutrition (n = 39), and 15% (n = 70) had grades of protein-energy malnutrition from marasmus to marasmic-kwashiokor. The implications for improved nutritional support services for hospitalised patients are discussed.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000886:Anthropometry; D001315:Australia; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D007732:Kwashiorkor / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D010361:Patients; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology