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Prevalence of Malnutrition in General Medical Patients
Abstract
Three, single-day nutritional surveys at weekly intervals were conducted in the general medical wards of an urban municipal teaching hospital. The techniques of nutritional assessment included anthropometric measures (weight/height, triceps skin fold, arm-muscle circumference, serum albumin, and hematocrit). The prevalence of protein-calorie malnutrition was 44% or greater by these criteria (weight/height, 45%; triceps skin fold, 76%; arm-muscle circumference, 55%; serum albumin, 44%; and hematocrit, 48%). These results were reproducible without significant variation between surveys. In 34% of patients, a lymphopenia of 1,200 cells/cu mm or less was found, a level likely to be associated with diminished cell-mediated immunity. Compared with a similar survey among surgical patients, the medical patients were more depleted calorically (weight/height, triceps skin fold) but had better protein status (arm-muscle circumference, serum albumin). Significant protein-calorie malnutrition occurs commonly in municipal hospitals in both medical and surgical services.
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Protein Status of General Surgical Patients
Bistrian, B. R. (1974) · JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association · doi:10.1001/jama.1974.03240060028025 · Cited by 822
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- Authors
- Bistrian, B. R.
- Venue
- JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 1976-04-12
- Volume
- 235
- Issue
- 15
- Pages
- 1567
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- OpenAlex
- W2093939891
- Cited by
- 950
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 18.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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