[Malnutrition in internal medicine : Screening, assessment and importance].

Abstract

Disease-related malnutrition has a strong influence on the further course of the disease and mortality, especially in chronically ill patients. In recent years it could be shown in large randomized studies that an individual nutrition therapy could significantly and relevantly improve the clinical outcome of patients in internal medicine with a risk of malnutrition, both in hospital and in aftercare. Therefore, due to the increasing proportion of multimorbid patients the significance of malnutrition and its treatment is becoming increasingly more important in the practice and in research. Nutritional medicine should nowadays be considered as an effective and integral component of a holistic treatment in internal medicine; however, further research is necessary in order to investigate new nutritional biomarkers and for a better integration of an evidence-based personalized nutritional medicine into routine clinical practice.

• Authors: Nina Kaegi-Braun, Carla Gressies, Pascal Tribolet, Franziska Stumpf, Bettina Keller, Philipp Schuetz
• Journal: Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) (Inn Med (Heidelb)) Vol. 64 Issue 6 Pg. 515-524 (Jun 2023) ISSN: 2731-7099 [Electronic] Germany
• Vernacular Title: Mangelernährung in der Inneren Medizin : Screening, Assessment und Bedeutung.
• PMID: 37212885 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article, Review)
• Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s).

Topics

• Humans
• Nutrition Assessment
• Malnutrition (diagnosis)
• Nutritional Status
• Nutritional Support
• Internal Medicine