Nutrition
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Comparative Study
Relationship between nutritional status and the Glasgow Prognostic Score in patients with colorectal cancer.
The association between nutritional status and inflammation was assessed in patients with colorectal cancer and to verify their association with complications during anticancer treatment. The agreement between the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) and different nutritional assessment methods was also evaluated. ⋯ Malnutrition is highly prevalent in patients with colorectal cancer. The nutritional status was associated with the GPS.
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This study examined an electronic nutritional self-screening procedure for feasibility and for reliability, rapidity, and ease of use by hospital outpatients. ⋯ The study provides evidence that electronic nutritional self-screening can be rapid, easy, reliable, and feasible in a clinical setting. Equipment specifically designed for self-screening and use in other types of patients and settings could facilitate appropriate and routine implementation of self-screening.
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Polyphenols are chemicals derived from plants known to possess antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. High intake of fruit and vegetables is believed to be beneficial to human health. Various studies have suggested that dietary polyphenols may protect against cancer and cardiometabolic and neurodegenerative diseases. Nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) are neurotrophins that play key roles in brain cell development, growth, and survival. The aim of this study was to investigate whether or not administration of olive (Olea europaea L.) polyphenols could have an effect on NGF and BDNF content and the expression of their receptors, TrkA and TrkB, respectively, in the mouse brain. ⋯ Altogether, this study shows that olive polyphenols in the mouse may increase the levels of NGF and BDNF in crucial areas of the limbic system and olfactory bulbs, which play a key role in learning and memory processes and in the proliferation and migration of endogenous progenitor cells present in the rodent brain.
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Newborns of diabetic mothers have abnormal circulatory organs, so in this study, we explore insulin signaling in the newborn rat heart. ⋯ A maternal diet rich in fish oil improves cardiac Akt-related signaling in the offspring of diabetic rats.