Malnutrition in heart failure. The importance of assessing for congestion and sarcopenia.

Aim: This work aims to describe nutrition and sarcopenia in inpatients with heart failure (HF). It also aims to assess factors associated with in-hospital and short-term prognosis related to nutrition and sarcopenia.

Methods: We collected data on consecutive HF patients admitted to a single center's internal medicine ward.

Impact of diabetes, malnutrition and sarcopenia on the prognosis of patients admitted to internal medicine.

Objective: To describe patients hospitalized in internal medicine in terms of malnutrition and sarcopenia, depending on the presence or absence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), as well as to evaluate short- and long-term mortality related to both.

Methods: Cross-sectional, single-center study, which included consecutive patients admitted to internal medicine in May and October 2021. Malnutrition was determined using the Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form (MNA-SF) and sarcopenia using SARC-F and handgrip strength.

Malnutrition and sarcopenia worsen short- and long-term outcomes in internal medicine inpatients.

Purpose: This work aims to describe patients hospitalized in internal medicine wards in terms of nutrition and sarcopenia. It also seeks to evaluate short- and long-term mortality related to malnutrition and sarcopenia.

Methods: This cross-sectional study collected data on consecutive patients admitted to a single center's internal medicine ward.