[Preoperative nutritional assessment: a 1-year experience]. / Valoración nutricional preoperatoria: experiencia de un año.
Nutr Hosp
; 7(2): 137-44, 1992.
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ABSTRACT
A study was made of 443 surgical patients using a standard protocol for nutritional evaluation based on anthropometrical, analytical and immunological tests. The main criteria used for considering the presence of malnutrition was a weight loss of 10% and/or seric albumin level of less than 3.5 g/dl., by which method four nutritional groups were established. The average age of the sample was 56 +/- 15 years and 35% of patients had neoplasias, 9.25% of patients were classified as belonging to Group A (weight loss and low albumin levels), 10.15% as group B (low albumin levels), 14.44% as group C (weight loss), and 66.16% as group D (normal), so that the global malnutrition percentage was 33.84%. The Body Mass Index (BMI) and Ideal Weight Percentage (% IWP) were of similar importance, and there was a significant alteration in the Triceps Skin Fold (% TSF) and Muscular Area Percentage of the arm (% MAP) when malnutrition was in evidence. In the study of the Delayed Hypersensitivity Skin Tests (DSST) 21.4% showed anergia, 15.8% hypoergia and 62.8% were reactive, with a reduction in reactivity in the case of malnutrition. This was the parameter that most affected the albumen level.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Cuidados Preoperatorios
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Evaluación Nutricional
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
Es
Año:
1992
Tipo del documento:
Article