title: [Malnutrition prevalence in patients admitted to a rehabilitation and orthopedic surgery hospital].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Nutrición Clínica y Dietética, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, España.
authors.forename: A Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Sánchez López
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moreno-Torres Herrera
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Pérez de la Cruz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Orduña Espinosa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Medina
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: López Martínez
mesh_terms: 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