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Nutrición Hospitalaria
versão On-line ISSN 1699-5198versão impressa ISSN 0212-1611
Resumo
IZAOLA, Olatz et al. Real-world study in oncological outpatients of an oral supplement enriched with ω-3 fatty acids — effect on quality of life and nutritional parameters. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2021, vol.38, n.6, pp.1132-1137. Epub 07-Fev-2022. ISSN 1699-5198. https://dx.doi.org/10.20960/nh.03514.
Background:
cancer patients are a group at high nutritional risk. Oral nutritional supplementation (ONS) can improve nutritional status.
Objective:
the objective of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness on nutritional parameters and quality of life of a ω-3-enriched ONS in oncology outpatients in a real-world study.
Material and methods:
a total of 35 outpatient cancer patients who received 2 ONS per day were recruited. Chemistry, anthropometric, impedance measurement, nutritional survey, malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST) test, and EQ5D quality of life test were all used before and after 3 months of intervention.
Results:
mean age was 65.4 ± 10.7 years (18 females/17 males). Mean completion of the group was 81.7 ± 7.2 %. During the intervention, total protein (1.5 ± 0.2 g/dL; p = 0.01), albumin (0.9 ± 0.1 mg/dL; p = 0.04), and transferrin (53.9 ± 21.1 mg/dL; p = 0.02) levels increased. At the beginning of the study, 100 % of the patients were in the high nutritional risk category according to MUST. After the intervention, 34.3 % (n = 12) were in the low nutritional risk category, 51.4 % (n = 18) in the moderate nutritional risk category, and only 14.3 % (n = 5) in the category of high nutritional risk; previously, 100 % of patients had high nutritional risk (p = 0.02). The total score in the quality of life test increased significantly (0.51 ± 0.06 vs 0.84 ± 0.03 points; p = 0.01), with improvement in 5 dimensions.
Conclusions:
the use of a ω-3-enriched ONS in a real-world study with cancer outpatients showed a beneficial effect on nutritional parameters and quality of life.
Palavras-chave : Ambulatory; ω-3 fatty acids; Cancer; Real-world study; Quality of life.