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Nutrition therapy using a multidisciplinary team improves survival rates in patients with liver cirrhosis

Iwasa, Motoh, Iwata, Kazuko, Hara, Nagisa, Hattori, Ayana, Ishidome, Masumi, Sekoguchi-Fujikawa, Noriko, Mifuji-Moroka, Rumi, Sugimoto, Ryosuke +3 more·2013·Nutrition

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Objectives Very few reports thus far have clinically elucidated the advantages of a nutrition support team (NST) in the field of liver diseases. The present study retrospectively analyzed whether nutrition therapy for liver cirrhosis (LC), performed by a multidisciplinary team that includes registered dieticians, improves survival rates.Methods In study 1, we compared survival rates between two groups of patients with LC to elucidate the effects of nutrition management by registered dieticians. The first group was comprised of 101 patients that received no dietary counseling from a dietician, and the second group was comprised of 133 patients that received nutritional counseling following nutrition assessment. In study 2, we split the patients who received nutritional counseling in study 1 into two groups and compared their survival rates with the objective of investigating the effects of a multidisciplinary team approach on survival rate. The first group was comprised of 51 patients that, in addition to regular nutritional counseling given by a dietician, regularly attended courses on liver disease given every 3 to 6 mo. The second group was comprised of 82 patients that did not attend the liver-disease courses.Results During study 1, 34 patients in the first group and 20 patients in the second group died, representing a significant difference (P < 0.05). This difference was even more pronounced in the subset of patients classified as Child-Pugh class A (P < 0.01), but no differences were seen among patients in classes B and C (P = 0.378). During study 2, four patients in the first group and 15 patients in the second group died, representing a significant difference (P < 0.05).Conclusions This study showed that nutritional intervention using a multidisciplinary team during the treatment of LC improves survival rates and quality of life of the patients.

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Authors
Iwasa, M., Iwata, K., Hara, N., Hattori, A., Ishidome, M., Sekoguchi-Fujikawa, N., Mifuji-Moroka, R., Sugimoto, R., Fujita, N., Kobayashi, Y., & Takei, Y.
Affiliations
  • Mie University (JP)
  • Mie University Hospital (JP)
Corresponding author
Iwasa, Motoh
Venue
Nutrition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-11
Volume
29
Issue
11-12
Pages
1418-1421
ISSN
0899-9007 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2128075464
Cited by
90
References
7
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FWCI
2.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nutrition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (25460990)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hepatology › Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education
Keywords
liver cirrhosis, nutritional therapy, multidisciplinary team, registered dietitians, nutrition counseling, survival rate, Child-Pugh score, patient education, quality of life
MeSH terms
Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Liver Cirrhosis, Male, Middle Aged, Retrospective Studies, Nutrition Assessment, Survival Rate

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