The impact of nutritional status on survival among community-dwelling older adults is unclear. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and association of poor nutritional status, including malnutrition ...

Chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers are more common today, and many people don’t realise that their everyday eating habits could be increasing their risk. However, what if ...

Meta-analysis of the randomized comparisons between low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH) with oral anticoagulants (OA) for the long-term treatment of symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE): no ...

Homeless people eat foods at municipal and charity run shelters, fast-food restaurants, delicatessens, and from garbage bins. Data on the adequacy of the diets and the nutritional status of homeless ...

A comprehensive review assessed the ways that proper nutrition could help reduce the adverse effects of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with hepatic encephalopathy. A recent review published in the ...

Nutritional status does change with therapy, and the need to evaluate nutritional status during therapy as a prognostic marker is exemplified by the article by Orgel et al. 8 Embedding longitudinal ...

In this video, Anjay Rastogi, MD, PhD, professor and Clinical Chief of Nephrology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, highlights necessary lifestyle adjustments for chronic kidney disease ...

A novel model for gauging nutritional risk among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) showed high accuracy and may provide a simpler, more targeted alternative to currently used nutritional ...

Credit: Getty Images A full nutrition assessment must be undertaken and, from there, appropriate interventions can be developed and monitored for improved health outcomes. Albumin may be informative ...

The need for a proper classification which would differentiate the patients with compensated and uncompensated liver cirrhosis and would classify them according to their prognosis and life expectancy ...

Good maternal and adolescent nutrition is required to ensure women and children’s health and nutritional status across generations. Stable isotopes are used to assess actions to improve adolescents’ ...