Prevalência de malnutrição num serviço de Medicina Interna

Authors

  • Almerindo Rego Assistente Graduado de Medicina Interna, Hospital de Angra do Heroísmo.
  • Miguel Santos Interno do Internato Complementar de Medicina Interna, Hospital de Angra do Heroísmo.
  • Jacinta Dantas Técnica Superior de Análises Clínicas, Hospital de Angra do Heroísmo

Keywords:

anthropometric parameters, bioche­mical

Abstract

The nutritional assessment was made to 444 pa­tients, with the average age of 51 and all interned in the medicine service of the Hospital of Angra, using anthropometric and biochemical parameters. The anthropometric parameters used were the skinfold thickness and the mid-upper arm cir­cumference, and the biochemical ones were the plasmatic albumin and transferrin.

The global prevalence of malnutrition was 55%, the moderate malnutrition was 48.7% and the se­ vere malnutrition was 6,3%.

Marasmos was prevalent (36%).

Neoplastic diseases, cerebrovascular diseases and chronic obstructive lung disease, chronic al­coholism and chronic renal failure, were the most frequently connected pathologies.

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1994-09-30

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Rego A, Santos M, Dantas J. Prevalência de malnutrição num serviço de Medicina Interna. RPMI [Internet]. 1994 Sep. 30 [cited 2024 Nov. 22];1(3):158-60. Available from: https://revista.spmi.pt/index.php/rpmi/article/view/2465

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (1994): Julho/ Setembro

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