title: Nutritional assessment as a routine in clinical medicine.
abstract: Nutritional assessment parameters, such as plasma protein levels (albumin) and delayed hypersensitivity response, have prognostic value in evaluation of hospitalized patients. Abnormalities implicate protein-calorie malnutrition as a factor in many illnesses. Given the wide availability of enteral and parenteral products to treat malnutrition, the detection of nutritional deficiencies before they become manifest as delayed wound healing and/or impaired resistance to infection is of utmost importance.
mesh_terms: D000886:Anthropometry; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000276:immunology; D001132:Arm; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D003404:Creatinine / Q000378:metabolism; D004044:Dietary Proteins; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000378:metabolism; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D012306:Risk; D012885:Skinfold Thickness; D014508:Urea / Q000652:urine
chemical_list: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001798:Blood Proteins; D004044:Dietary Proteins; D014508:Urea; D003404:Creatinine; D009584:Nitrogen