title: The role of nutrition in wound healing.
abstract: Many factors, such as smoking, diabetes, anemia, steroids, and 'malnutrition, often impede the wound healing process. Optimizing patient's overall health status, in particular promoting nutrition, is an extremely effective way to improve the status of a wound. In this article, the role nutritional status plays in wound repair will be discussed.
authors.affiliation: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pontieri-Lewis
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D018529:Nutritional Support / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*