Home parenteral nutrition, sleep patterns, and depressive symptoms: Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data.

Background: Patients receiving home parenteral nutrition (HPN) are known to experience psychological distress and have profoundly disrupted sleep. The aim of this analysis was to examine the relationship between sleep patterns with depressive symptoms and HPN characteristics.

Methods: The study was a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data examining sleep patterns using subjective and objective measures.

Ideal body weight: A commentary.

Background & Aims: The Ideal Body Weight (IBW) model has provided dietitians and researchers with a quick method of risk assessment but is known to be imperfect. IBW formulas were developed from anthropometric measurements of life-insurance policy holders obtained between 1885 and 1908, providing statistics of mortality, organized by sex and age. Actuaries of the U.