Publications by authors named "Rebeca Jimenez-Sahagun"

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  • User-friendly assessment tools for malnutrition are essential, and this study focused on a personalized nutrition intervention using a new oral nutritional supplement and AI technology to track outcomes in malnourished patients.
  • The study included 65 patients and showed significant improvements over three months, with weight loss decreasing, and a drop in the prevalence of malnutrition and severe malnutrition.
  • Additionally, older patients experienced gains in muscle thickness, strength, and function, indicating that tailored interventions can effectively enhance nutrition and combat malnutrition in patients with disease-related issues.
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  • The study assessed the effects of a diabetes-specific enteral nutrition formula on glycemia, comorbidities, and mortality in non-diabetic acute stroke patients requiring feeding via a nasogastric tube.
  • The randomized trial included 52 patients (average age 77), comparing an isocaloric isoprotein formula (control group) against a diabetes-specific formula (experimental group).
  • Results showed that the experimental group had significantly fewer cases of hyperglycemia and a better rate of recovery via the oral route, but no differences in length of stay or mortality rates were observed.
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  • ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with high rates of malnutrition, which can affect patient outcomes; this study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of muscle ultrasonography in identifying malnutrition and predicting prognosis in ALS patients.
  • The study analyzed 37 ALS patients using various methods to assess nutritional status, including anthropometric measurements and electrical bioimpedance analysis, alongside muscle ultrasonography of the quadriceps to evaluate both muscle mass and quality.
  • Results found that nearly 46% of patients were malnourished according to established criteria, with significant correlations between muscle mass measured by ultrasound and various markers of body composition, indicating the potential usefulness of muscle ultrasonography in ALS management.
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Background: Progression diets after bariatric surgery (BS) are restricted in calories and protein, and they may induce a worsening of body composition. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a modified diet with an oral nutritional supplement that is hyperproteic and normocaloric over the body composition.

Methods: A two-arm ambispective observational cohort study was designed.

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Unlabelled: Nutritional ultrasonography is an emerging technique for measuring muscle mass and quality. The study aimed to evaluate the relationship between the parameters of body mass and quality of ultrasonography with other parameters of morphofunctional assessment in patients with disease-related malnutrition (DRM).

Methods: A cross-sectional study was developed on 144 patients diagnosed with DRM according to the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria.

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Background And Aims: Medical oncology inpatients are at a very high risk of malnutrition, and the presence of complications associated with malnutrition is significant in their evolution. It is necessary to have adequate tools in the diagnosis of malnutrition.

Objectives: This study is aimed to assess the nutritional status of cancer inpatients and compare the incidence of complications based on the nutritional diagnosis with different tools.

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Introduction: Nutritional support in patients with COVID19 can influence the mean stay and complications in the patient in Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Aims: To evaluate the selection of enteral nutritional treatment in the COVID-19 patient admitted to the ICU. To know the development of dysphagia and its treatment.

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Introduction: The prevalence of malnutrition in patients with diabetes mellitus is high. In these patients, monitoring nutritional intervention is complex. Aims: To evaluate the evolution in the nutritional status in patients with diabetes/prediabetes and malnutrition with a diabetes-specific enteral formula.

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Introduction: hyponatremia is the most frequent disturbance in hospitalized patients. This situation may influence the therapeutic approach in patients with total enteral tube feeding (TEN). Objective: to study the prevalence of hyponatremia and the clinical factors that are associated with increased risk in a population with TEN.

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Introduction: Flash glucose monitoring (FGM) improves some glycaemic control variables and quality of life parameters.

Objective: Our aim was to evaluate the quality of life and glycaemic control parameters after initiating FGM in patients with type 1 diabetes (DM1) in clinical practice.

Material And Methods: A prospective observational study in DM1 patients that started using FGM between June 2019 and April 2020.

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Introduction: Nutritional support in patients with COVID-19 can influence the mean stay and complications in the patient in Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Aims: To evaluate the selection of enteral nutritional treatment in the COVID-19 patient admitted to the ICU. To know the development of dysphagia and its treatment.

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Background and aims: a poor nutritional status may worsen the prognosis of stroke. We assessed which factors were associated with a worse nutritional status in patients with stroke at the time of hospitalization. Methods: a cross-sectional study in patients with stroke needing enteral nutritional support, from January 2014 to September 2016.

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Introduction: In the hospitalized patient, Diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) may result in a worse nutritional status due to its pathophysiology and dietary treatment.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to know if a hospitalized diabetic patient has a worse nutritional status, and to establish the influence of DM2 on the hospital length of stay in patients with malnutrition.

Material And Methods: This was a transveral study from January 2014 to October 2016; 1017 patients were included who were assessed by the Endocrinology and Nutrition Department.

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Introduction and objective: familial heterozygous hypercholesterolemia (HFH) is the most common monogenic lipid metabolism disorder that associates premature cardiovascular disease. Our aim was to describe the degree of metabolic control, cardiovascular profile, and adherence to the Mediterranean diet in a cohort of HFH patients. Subjects and methods: a retrospective cohort study of the index cases and their relatives genetically diagnosed with HFH by the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service in the HCUV from 2009 to 2017.

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