Nutritional support of the hospitalized patient.
Malnutrition is being recognized more frequently in hospitalized patients. Clinically significant malnutrition is defined as nutritional deficits that have serious adverse effects on the treatment and outcome of illness. The anergic metabolic profile is a simple method of assessing nutritional status. New techniques of enteral and parenteral nutritional support can stop or reverse the progression of malnutrition.
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000378:metabolism; D000886:Anthropometry; D001835:Body Weight; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000009:adverse effects; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total / Q000009:adverse effects; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
D011506:Proteins