[Prevalence of malnutrition to income in a basic general hospital].

Objective: The main objective has been to evaluate and quantify the prevalence of malnutrition at admission, the degree of severity and the correlation with the nutritional parameters in a basic general hospital of the first level.

Methods: Observational, transverse, and randomized study of 244 patients (59.8% male and 40.

A new fructose-free, resistant-starch type IV-enriched enteral formula improves glycaemic control and cardiovascular risk biomarkers when administered for six weeks to elderly diabetic patients.

Background: Reducing the dietary glycaemic response has been proposed as a way to reduce the risk of diabetes complications.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the glycaemic control and cardiovascular risk biomarkers in fragile, elderly type 2 diabetes patients after the intake of a new fructose-free diabetes-specific formula enriched with resistant-starch type IV and high in monounsaturated fatty acids.

Methods: Forty-one type 2 diabetes patients aged 78.

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La detección de la desnutrición hospitalaria continúa de plena actualidad en la literatura médica y, a pesar de que desde hace dos décadas dejó de ser un tema novedoso, constituye un elemento recurrente en la bibliografía y motivo de abordajes monográficos en congresos y reuniones científicas.

[VALIDATION OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETECTION OF MALNUTRITION HOSPITAL AND ANALYSIS OF HOSPITAL COSTS].

Background: one of the methods of diagnosis of malnutrition is serum albumin, for the simplicity of its determination and low cost.

Objectives: the main objective is to validate and implement a computer program based on the determination of serum albumin, allowing early detection and treatment to malnourished or at risk of malnutrition patients, still another objective evaluation of costs by diagnosis-related groups.

Methods: the study design is cohort, dynamic and prospective, which are included hospital discharge from november 2012 until march 2014, being the study population of patients over age 14 who enter the various services of a Medical Surgical Hospital of the Granada's Hospital Complex Univesity, whose numbers are lower serum albumin 3.

[Study of death with secondary diagnosis of malnutrition in a third level hospital].

Background: Malnutrition is a major public health problems, according to WHO, is the leading cause of death, when it affects the group of hospitalized patients, making denominating separate entity "hospital malnutrition".

Objectives: The overall objective is to quantify the main diagnoses frequently high, causing exitus, with secondary diagnosis of malnutrition.

Methods: This is a descriptive study, which included all hospital discharges in 2011 and first half of 2012, which have been exitus and whose secondary diagnosis of malnutrition, with the total of 33.

[Endocarditis caused by Trichoderma longibrachiatumin a patient receiving home parenteral nutrition].

Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) improves the quality of life of the patients although it has complications. Catheter-related infections and mechanical complications are the most frequent ones. We report the case of endocarditis over catheter in a man suffering from short bowel and receiving HPN.

[Hospital malnutrition: relation between the hospital length of stay and the rate of early readmissions].

Background And Objective: In hospitalized patients, malnutrition ranges between 30% and 55% and is associated with a higher rate of complications, prolonged hospitalization and increased cost of health services. Despite this, there is no awareness of the clinical and economic implications involving hospital malnutrition and its treatment. We analyzed the relationship between hospital malnutrition, average length of stay and early readmissions.