Controlling nutritional status score for predicting 3-mo functional outcome in acute ischemic stroke

Malnutrition has been reported to be an independent risk factor for morbidity and mortality in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) [1 –3]. The prevalence of malnutrition after AIS has been reported to range from 8% to 34% [3]. In addition, malnourished patients, at admission, had a higher frequency of pneumonia, other infections, gastrointestinal bleeding, and bedsores than nourished patients [1,3]. Nutritional management is the refore a non-pharmacologic approach toward improving patient outcomes.

Source: Nutrition - March 28, 2018 Category: Nutrition Authors: Hiroyuki Naito, Tomohisa Nezu, Naohisa Hosomi, Shiro Aoki, Naoto Kinoshita, Junichiro Kuga, Ryo Shimomura, Mutsuko Araki, Hiroki Ueno, Kazuhide Ochi, Hirofumi Maruyama Tags: Applied nutritional investigation Source Type: research