Active clinical trials for "Malnutrition"

Prospective feasibility study of perioperative nutrition in patients affected by primary retroperitoneal sarcoma

Good nutritional status of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) is associated with better outcome of the disease and better health-related quality of life. The prevalence of malnutrition in patients with Crohn's disease varies and is higher in patients with active disease. Available studies in the literature have assessed the nutritional status of patients with Crohn's disease. However, sample size of available studies is small and highly heterogeneous, and most patients are hospitalized with active disease. The aim of the present study is a thorough assessment of nutritional status of 250 patients either with active Crohn's disease or in remission of the disease using multiple widely available tools and methods, in order to assess their accuracy and estimate the prevalence of multiple malnutrition phenotypes such as undernutrition, sarcopenia, sarcopenic obesity and cachexia as well as overweight and obesity. Finally, the effect of the nutritional status on the course of the disease will be investigated.

Data literature lacks of evidence concerning the variation of the nutritional status in patients undergoing hip surgery, thus preventing an effective application a nutritional support program. It is therefore necessary to start identifying the clinical steps (pre-operative and post-operative) that may be defined as critical control points for malnutrition. The observation should foresee the identification of nutritional status indicators, such as weight, hemoglobin, albumin, food intake, and others that might affect a proper recovery. This study aims to investigate the prognostic nutritional factors that might influence clinical outcomes, and their variation in relation to hospitalization and rehabilitation periods.

Malnutrition is a frequent problem in persons older than 65 years: the prevalence of malnutrition can reach 25 to 29% in persons living at home who require help, figures vary between 19 and 38% for those living in institutions, and finally, the prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized elderly patients can reach 30 to 90%. A few studies have attempted to explain modifications in attitudes, behaviour, the frequency of meals or nutritional status in the elderly by a fall in chemosensory sensitivity The aim of this project is to test the hypothesis that perhaps it is not as much the capacity to perceive a smell or a taste that affects eating behaviour in the elderly as their ability to distinguish between smells or tastes on the one hand (perceptual processing), and their ability to correctly interpret a chemosensory signal on the other (cognitive processing).

Tolerance and Acceptability of new oral nutritional supplement - STOCKHOLM.

We aimed to establish the effects of sarcopenia on postoperative complications among patients undergoing surgical treatment for gastric cancer

Chemotherapy conditioning, preceding Stem Cell Transplantation (SCT), has been associated with severe gastrointestinal toxicity, commonly compromising patients' food intake, nutritional status and functioning level. Malnutrition has been associated with worse functional status, reduced survival, increased rate of infections, complications, hospitalizations, and therapy toxicity in oncology patients. To date, there is no Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) assessing the impact of a nutrition intervention on SCT patients who remain at risk of malnutrition even 100 days post SCT. The proposed study is a single center, prospective, RCT with a parallel design that aims to assess the impact of a nutrition intervention on the nutritional and functional statuses of SCT recipients 100 days post SCT.

The nutritional status of CP children may be decreased when children have chewing disorders too due to insufficient solid food intake. The objective of this study was to investigate growth, dietary intakes and feeding behaviours of children with CP who have chewing disorders, and to compare them with their healthy peers.

Undernutrition is the result of energy and protein deficiency and / or catabolic. These phenomena are observed daily in patients awaiting lung transplantation. After lung transplantation that undernutrition is growing (on average 11% weight loss after the first observations in the continuing care of the University Hospital of Strasbourg). In other words the non-malnourished patients become. Hence the importance to reach every patient awaiting transplant, mainly to patients already malnourished before surgery. Several studies have shown that early nutritional support has a direct effect on reducing comorbidities and the average length of stay. In the course of care of these patients it is necessary to intensify the dietary management to give them the best chance for early rehabilitation. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the impact of the use of the SFNEP's nutritional care decision-making tree (Société Francophone Nutrition Clinique et Métabolisme) on the implementation of enteral nutrition by gastrostomy tube in patients awaiting for lung transplantation.

This study investigated the results of the nutritional status of hospitalized patients with Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) and Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) screening and compared the effects of two screening method in predicting malnutrition.