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- Title
Malnutrition in patients with cancer; four years experience].
- Authors
Fernández López, María Teresa; Saenz Fernández, Cecilia Alejandra; de Sás Prada, María Trinidad; Alonso Urrutia, Susana; Bardasco Alonso, María Luisa; Alves Pérez, María Teresa; Rivero Luis, María Teresa; Alvarez Vázquez, Paula; Mato Mato, José Antonio
- Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the prevalence and degree of malnutrition among patients with cancer who were sent to an Oncological Nutrition visit. MATERIAL AND METHODS: It is an observational crosssectional descriptive study. First nutrition visit data of all patientes aged >= 18 with cancer who were evaluated from march of 2008 to february of 2012 were used. A total of 997 patients were studied using the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment. RESULTS: 69% of the patients had lost more than 5% of their usual weight within the previous 3 months, the patients with the highest frequency of weight loss were those with digestive cancer. Eating problems were encountered by the 81.2% of the patients, the most frequent problem being anorexia (53.3%) and the median number of symptoms was 3. Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment shows a malnutrition prevalence of 72.9% (29.9% with moderate malnutrition and 43% with severe malnutrition). Malnutrition was related to the type of cancer and the stage of the disease and was not related to age, gender neither usual body mass index. CONCLUSIONS: Malnutrition prevalence among patients who were evaluated in our consulting-room is high. Nutritional evaluation is very important to detect patients at risk of malnutrition or with malnutrition and helps to choose the nutritional treatment.
- Publication
Nutrición Hospitalaria, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 2, p372
- ISSN
0212-1611
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3305/nh.2013.28.2.6239