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Article: Pitfalls of nutritional screening in injured obese patients outlined.
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- November 26, 2004
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2004 NOV 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers outline the pitfalls of nutritional screening in the injured obese patient in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society.
"The introduction of the process of nutritional screening into clinical standards has been driven by the increasing awareness of the prevalence of undernutrition in acute and primary care, along with its associated morbidity and mortality. However, the increasing prevalence of obesity in the general population suggests that an increased number of patients admitted to hospital will be obese. Increased morbidity has also been reported in the injured obese patient and may be ...