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Nutrición Hospitalaria
On-line version ISSN 1699-5198Print version ISSN 0212-1611
Abstract
SANCHEZ LOPEZ, A. M.ª et al. Malnutrition prevalence in patient admitted to a rehabilitation and orthopedic surgery hospital. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2005, vol.20, n.2, pp.121-130. ISSN 1699-5198.
Objective: Different studies show the scarce attention granted to the nutritional state in historical and clinical practice, what determines the ignorance of the patient's nutritional status to their entrance in the hospital and, therefore, the impossibility to prevent the hospital malnutrition. The objective of our study has been to determine the prevalence of patients' malnutrition entered in a Hospital of Orthopedic surgery and Rehabilitation. Methods: Observational and analytical study in 250 randomized patients (60% men and 40% women), who were nutritionally evaluated when entering, the hospital, by means of anthropometry (Weigh, height, BMI, skinfold, corporal circumferences) and biochemical tests (Albumin, Prealbumin and Transferrin). Results: According to the BMI the prevalence of malnutrition was of 8%, the average of caloric malnutrition was of 2,8% (according to anthropometry) and the prevalence of many-sided malnutrition rises to 54,8% (according to biochemical markers). Conclusions: The high prevalence of fundamental malnutrition (54,8%) demonstrated in this study, it shows the importance of determining the nutritional status when entering the hospital, particularly surgical type' patiens as is the case of most of those who enter the Orthopedic surgery hospitals.
Keywords : Hospital malnutrition; Nutritional assessment; Biochemical markers; Anthropometrics.