Investigation of nutritional risk factors using anthropometric indicators in hospitalized surgery patients

CONTEXT: The investigation of risk factors associated with nutritional status could contribute for better knowledge of the malnutrition. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence of malnutrition and its possible association with many parameters that assess nutritional status and to identify the associ...

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Main Authors: Vânia Aparecida Leandro-Merhi, José Luiz Braga de Aquino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Gastroenterologia (IBEPEGE) 2012-03-01
Series:Arquivos de Gastroenterologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-28032012000100006&lng=en&tlng=en