Publications by authors named "Camilla Horn Soares"
Article Synopsis
- Nutrition significantly impacts cancer care by supporting patients through treatment and recovery phases.
- Malnutrition and muscle loss from cancer and its treatments can worsen symptoms and delay recovery, making nutritional support essential.
- Personalized dietary recommendations, guided by registered dietitians, are crucial for optimizing health outcomes and enhancing the quality of life for cancer patients and survivors.
Background: Older patients with cancer present intense loss of muscle mass (MM). Calf circumference (CC) is a simple measurement that assesses MM. This study analyzed the accuracy and association between low CC and negative outcomes in older patients with solid tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComplementarity of nutritional assessment tools to predict prolonged hospital stay and readmission in older patients with solid tumors: A secondary analysis of a cohort study.
Nutrition
September 2023
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the complementarity of five nutritional risk screening tools (Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 [NRS-2002], Malnutrition Screening Tool [MST], Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool [MUST], Mini-Nutritional Assessment-Short Form [MNA-SF], and Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment SF [PG-SGA SF]) combined with three malnutrition diagnostic tools (SGA, PG-SGA, and Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition [GLIM]) and their ability to predict poor clinical outcomes in older patients with cancer.
Methods: Using data collected within 48 h of hospital admission, we conducted a prospective cohort study on nutritional risk (NRS-2002, MST, MUST, MNA-SF, and PG-SGA SF) and the presence of malnutrition (SGA, PG-SGA, and GLIM). Patients were grouped according to their nutritional risk and malnutrition status.