Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care
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September 2009
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Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care · Sep 2009
ReviewAdvances in understanding and assessing malnutrition.
To describe the varying views on the pathophysiology of malnutrition in different populations and the definitions that result from these views. To propose an umbrella definition for different malnutrition syndromes and principles of assessment of nutritional state. ⋯ There is an increasing acknowledgement of the fact that malnutrition is caused by disturbances in nutrient balance and inflammatory activity. This leads to changes in body composition and diminished function. An umbrella definition has been proposed including the pathogenetic factors, underlying the different malnutrition syndromes and dictating the methods to assess malnutrition.