Effects of a Specialized Oral Nutritional Supplement with Dietary Counseling on Nutritional Outcomes in Community-Dwelling Older Adults at Risk of Malnutrition: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

This study investigated the effects of oral nutritional supplements (ONSs) along with dietary counseling (DC) in community-dwelling older adults at risk of malnutrition. In this randomized controlled trial, 196 older adults who were at risk of malnutrition, as identified by the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) were randomly assigned to receive ONSs twice daily with DC (intervention) or DC-only (control) for 60 days. Primary outcome was change in body weight from baseline to day 60.

Effectiveness of Web Applications on Improving Nutritional Status of Patients with Colorectal Cancer.

The most common cancer in Thailand is colorectal cancer (CRC). A lack of knowledge and misleading information from social media have contributed to cancer deaths from malnutrition. A web application is a tool that provides easy access to scientific nutritional information via an online platform.

Effects of the Consumption of Low to Medium Glycemic Index-based Rice on the Rate of Insulin Initiation in Patients with Gestational Diabetes: A Triple-blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial.

Introduction: Medical nutritional therapy is vital in patients with diabetes. A low glycemic index (GI) is generally advised in the management of women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). However, the efficacy of this advice has not been systematically examined.

The Comparison of the Effects of three Meals Feeding a Day and Four Meals Feeding a Day in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Hospitalised Patients in Thammasat University Hospital on Blood Sugar Control and Enteral Feeding Complications.

Background: As malnutrition negatively impacts hospital outcomes, hospitalised patients should receive proper nutritional management. Enteral nutrition (EN) is the most common route for non-volitional dietary support, usually fed four times/day. It is different from patients with volitional feeding who receive only three meals/day.

First international meeting of early career investigators: Current opportunities, challenges and horizon in critical care nutrition research.

Background: Appropriate nutritional support is a key component of care for critically ill patients. While malnutrition increases complications, impacting long term outcomes and healthcare-related costs, uncertainties persist regarding optimal provision of nutritional support in this setting.

Methods: An international group of healthcare providers (HCPs) from critical care specialties and nutrition researchers convened to identify knowledge gaps and learnings from studies in critical care nutrition.

Effects of circadian restricted feeding on parameters of metabolic syndrome among healthy subjects.

Experimental studies indicate that energy homeostasis to the circadian clock at the behavioral, physiological, and molecular levels, emphasize that timing of food intake may play a significant role in the development of obesity and central obesity. Therefore, resetting the circadian clock by circadian energy restriction via food intake in the morning or evening, may be used as a new approach for prevention of obesity, metabolic syndrome and related diseases. After ethical clearance and written, informed consent, free living subjects were included if they volunteered to take most of the total daily meals (approximately 2000 Kcal.

Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency in 2015: The Impact of Novel Intravenous Lipid Emulsions.

The fatty acids, linoleic acid (18:2ω-6) and α-linolenic acid (18:3ω-3), are essential to the human diet. When these essential fatty acids are not provided in sufficient quantities, essential fatty acid deficiency (EFAD) develops. This can be suggested clinically by abnormal liver function tests or biochemically by an elevated Mead acid and reduced linoleic acid and arachidonic acid level, which is manifested as an elevated triene/tetraene ratio of Mead acid/arachidonic acid.

Energy requirements and the use of predictive equations versus indirect calorimetry in critically ill patients.

Nutrition support has been shown to have a positive impact on critically ill patients who meet their defined goals of nutrition therapy. However, inappropriate energy assessment can contribute to under- or overfeeding resulting in deleterious effects. Thus, assessment of energy expenditure in critically ill patients is crucial to prevent negative impacts from inappropriate feeding.

Anemia and leukopenia in a long-term parenteral nutrition patient during a shortage of parenteral trace element products in the United States.

Recently, drug shortages in the United States have affected multiple components of the parenteral nutrition (PN) solution. A 62-year-old patient with systemic sclerosis who was dependent on home PN due to intestinal dysmotility developed anemia and leukopenia approximately 4 months after parenteral copper was withheld from her PN solution due to drug shortages. The patient was not able to tolerate a sufficient amount of oral multivitamins with trace elements due to severe dysphagia.

Initial inappropriate urinary catheters use in a tertiary-care center: incidence, risk factors, and outcomes.

Objectives: To evaluate the epidemiology and outcomes for initiation of inappropriate urinary catheterization (IUC) among hospitalized patients.

Setting: A 450-bed, tertiary-care hospital.

Patients: All patients admitted to the hospital from September 1, 2003 to June 12, 2004 with urinary catheter (UC).