“…A research carried out with a population of 222 post-stroke hospitalized individuals also observed a prevalence of non-malnourished persons, according to BMI, at hospital admission, in which 55% of the patients were eutrophic, 14.7% with overweight, 5% obese, and 25.2% with malnutrition. However, after 14 days of hospitalization, an increase in the number of malnourished people was observed 31 . Another paper also showed a lower percentage of malnourishment, according to BMI, in a population of 200 elderly averaging 72.6 ± 8.3 years old, similar to this study, in which 39% were classified with eutrophy, 36% with excessive weight, and 25% with malnutrition; the average BMI found was of 25.5 ± 5.5 kg/m 2,32 .…”