Antioxidant supplementation in patients treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy apparently decreased oxidative stress, maintained hemoglobin levels, and improved QoL; however, more studies are needed to study the long-term effect of this intervention.
Rationale: Obesity is a clinical characteristic of Covid patients. However, patients are discharged from the hospital with an elevated weight loss.(1) ¿What is the evaluation of body composition and weight change of patients recovered from COVID-19 at the first post-covid patient nutritional care? Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that included patients with the diagnosis of COVID-19 assessed after their hospitalization. We evaluated weight changes according to time of change between discharge and first nutritional counseling after hospitalization. Actual body weight, Body mass index (BMI), change of weight was assessed. Body composition characteristics of patients were describe and measured using the medical body composition analyzer SECA mBCA 514. Sarcopenia was assesses according Musclesqueletical mass (kg/m2) using international criteria (2). Descriptive analysis used percentage, median, and standard deviation for Results.Results: This study recruited 24 patients: 62.5% men and 37.5% women. The average age was 55.87±12.6 years, and comorbidities were present in 58% of patients, such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, dyslipidemia. The referred percentage of weight loss in hospitalization was 15.9±12.5 during an average length of stay reported of 27.3±178 days. Change weight average after hospitalizaci on was 7.4±10.2 kg during 126±73 days between discharge and nutritional counseling after hospitalization. Gain weight was present in 87% and weight loss in 13% of patients. Most patients present excess body weight according to body mass index (BMI): 29.56±5.61kg/m2. Normal weight was presented in 16.7%, overweight in 45.8%, obesity grade I 25%, obesity grade II 4.2%, and obesity grade III 8.3%. Body composition analysis presented in Table 1 showed a high amount of fat mass and visceral fat in the general population. Musclesqueletical mass corrected by height in the general population and according to sex (male and female) were 9.4±1.9 kg/m2, 9.9±2 kg/m2, and 8.4±1.3 kg/m2,
Antecedentes: la nutrición clínica es una disciplina que ha tenido gran impacto en los últimos años. Sin embargo, en el ámbito hospitalario es necesario que los médicos tratantes hagan un seguimiento más minucioso a los pacientes con riesgo nutricional con el fin de ofrecer el tratamiento nutricional oportuno. Objetivo: evaluar la proporción de interconsultas al servicio de nutrición clínica comparado con el porcentaje de riesgo nutricional de cada servicio. Metodología: se realizó un estudio observacional, analítico, transversal en los servicios del Hospital General de México, en el cual se comparó el número de pacientes diagnosticados con riesgo nutricional, evaluado mediante la herramienta NRS-2002 y el número de interconsultas que se recibieron por servicio hospitalario durante un año. Los datos recolectados de los registros de cada área fueron valorados en forma de proporciones por medio del programa STATA V. 14. Resultados: se analizaron en total 31.225 pacientes, de los cuales el 19,20 % presentó riesgo nutricional. A 81,42 % de los pacientes con riesgo nutricional les solicitaron interconsulta al servicio de nutrición clínica. Los servicios con mayor porcentaje de riesgo nutricional fueron nefrología (95,26 %), geriatría (66,46 %) y oncología (63,23 %). Los servicios con menor número de interconsultas fueron oftalmología (1), urología (91), nefrología (67) y geriatría (70) a pesar de tener un porcentaje importante de pacientes con riesgo nutricional. Conclusión: el porcentaje de solicitud de interconsulta al servicio de nutrición clínica por parte del médico tratante no se relaciona con el porcentaje de riesgo nutricional por servicio. Se hace necesario generar conciencia sobre el seguimiento nutricional a los pacientes hospitalizados.
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