[Malnutrition prevalence in patients admitted to a rehabilitation and orthopedic surgery hospital].
OBJECTIVE
Different studies show the scarce attention granted to the nutritional state in historical and clinical practice, what determines the ignorance of the patient's nutritional status to their entrance in the hospital and, therefore, the impossibility to prevent the hospital malnutrition. The objective of our study has been to determine the prevalence of patients' malnutrition entered in a Hospital of Orthopedic surgery and Rehabilitation.


METHODS
Observational and analytical study in 250 randomized patients (60% men and 40% women), who were nutritionally evaluated when entering, the hospital, by means of anthropometry (Weigh, height, BMI, skin-fold, corporal circumferences) and biochemical tests (Albumin, Prealbumin and Transferrin).


RESULTS
According to the BMI the prevalence of malnutrition was of 8%, the average of caloric malnutrition was of 2.8% (according to anthropometry) and the prevalence of many-sided malnutrition rises to 54.8% (according to biochemical markers).


CONCLUSIONS
The high prevalence of fundamental malnutrition (54.8%) demonstrated in this study, it shows the importance of determining the nutritional status when entering the hospital, particularly surgical type' patiens as is the case of most of those who enter the Orthopedic surgery hospitals.
Sánchez López
A Maria
AM
Unidad de Nutrición Clínica y Dietética, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, España.
Moreno-Torres Herrera
R
R
Pérez de la Cruz
A J
AJ
Orduña Espinosa
R
R
Medina
T
T
López Martínez
C
C
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D019637:Orthopedic Procedures; D015995:Prevalence; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers