BODY COMPOSITION ASSESSED BY DUAL-ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY ON METABOLIC PROFILE AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN OBESE PATIENTS PRIOR TO BARIATRIC SURGERY.

Background: Fat, muscle, and bone are endocrine organs capable of affecting the metabolic profile and cardiovascular risk. Relating these components is important to the establishment of early intervention strategies for overweight patients.

Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the influence of body mass components on the metabolic profile and cardiovascular risk in the preoperative period of bariatric surgery.

Sarcopenia in Non-Dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: Prevalence and Associated Factors.

Background: Sarcopenia is related to morbidity and mortality in non-dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease (ND-CKD) patients; however, the pathophysiology of sarcopenia remains unclear. The study aimed to assess the prevalence and factors associated with sarcopenia in ND-CKD individuals.

Methods: We cross-sectionally evaluated 139 prevalent ND-CKD patients attending our outpatient clinic at Hospital das Clínicas of the Federal University of Pernambuco, between April and October 2019.

Discriminative power of an adapted version of Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 applied to Brazilian older adults.

Objective: To investigate the discriminative power of Nutritional Risk Screening 2002.

Methods: A cross sectional study involving one hundred participants aged ≥60 years. The original and adapted versions of Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 and the Mini Nutritional Assessment were used.