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Nutrición Hospitalaria
On-line version ISSN 1699-5198Print version ISSN 0212-1611
Abstract
SILVA, Leandro Silveira Monteiro da and CUNHA, Haroldo Falcão Ramos da. Clinical nutrition prescription using a mathematical method to assess industrialized formulas. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2020, vol.37, n.3, pp.432-435. Epub Nov 30, 2020. ISSN 1699-5198. https://dx.doi.org/10.20960/nh.02982.
Background:
the planning of nutritional therapy depends on restrictions defined by the prescriber, in a way that nutrients and calories levels are placed at appropriate intervals. Since industrialized formulas (IF) have fixed compositions of macro and micronutrients, there is a high risk of not meeting the set of restrictions in a given clinical scenario, i.e., attendance of the caloric, but not of the protein target.
Objective:
the objective of this study is to identify under what conditions it is possible an industrialized formula to meet the clinical restrictions of calories, macro and micronutrients.
Methods:
we deduced a mathematical relationship that must be met in order to satisfy such constraints. Using as variables: a) the necessary volume of an FI to meet the energy goal; b) the energy density of the FI; c) upper limit of calorie or nutrient; and d) the lower limit of calorie or nutrient.
Results:
a first degree inequality was developed that if attended allows to discriminate if a prescribed volume v of an IF meets the set of restrictions placed by the prescriber, in order to previously select viable formulas among a portfolio. Clinical vignettes are presented.
Conclusion:
the viability condition of an industrialized formula for the attendance of a system of constraints can be identified with the aid of a mathematical formula of the first-degree inequality type.
Keywords : Linear model; Nutrition therapy; Formula; Macronutrient; Target.