Nutritional Assessment Tools for Identification and Monitoring of Malnutrition in Patients with Chronic Disease - Volume 1

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22 March 2022

Editorial: Nutritional Assessment Tools for Identification and Monitoring of Malnutrition in Patients With Chronic Disease

Eloisa Colin-Ramírez

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Lilia Castillo-Martínez

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LILIA CASTILLO-MARTINEZ

National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán

Eloisa Colin-Ramirez

National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán

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Chronic disease-related malnutrition and muscle wasting are highly prevalent conditions that are associated with prolonged hospital stays, higher morbidity and mortality, and increased economic burden. Nutritional assessment of patients with chronic diseases should be conducted for the early detection and management of malnutrition.

Accurate nutritional assessment at the time of disease diagnosis and during treatment follow-up is necessary. However, nutritional evaluation is not a routine practice in the clinical setting and procedures need to be standardized. Several tools such as biomarkers and anthropometric measures have been proven to be useful for assessing nutritional status in the general population. These may be not reliable in the context of chronic diseases such as heart failure, renal failure, liver disease, arthritis, and cancer, where malnutrition may coexist with fluid overload and systemic inflammation. Thus, identifying additional nutritional assessment tools to properly identify patients with nutritional abnormalities is urgently needed.

The purpose of this Research Topic is to offer an insight into the current and novel nutritional assessment tools for the identification and monitoring of malnutrition in patients with chronic disease. We welcome submissions of relevant Original Research, Review, Mini-review, and Opinion articles.

Chronic disease-related malnutrition and muscle wasting are highly prevalent conditions that are associated with prolonged hospital stays, higher morbidity and mortality, and increased economic burden. Nutritional assessment of patients with chronic diseases should be conducted for the early detection and management of malnutrition.

Accurate nutritional assessment at the time of disease diagnosis and during treatment follow-up is necessary. However, nutritional evaluation is not a routine practice in the clinical setting and procedures need to be standardized. Several tools such as biomarkers and anthropometric measures have been proven to be useful for assessing nutritional status in the general population. These may be not reliable in the context of chronic diseases such as heart failure, renal failure, liver disease, arthritis, and cancer, where malnutrition may coexist with fluid overload and systemic inflammation. Thus, identifying additional nutritional assessment tools to properly identify patients with nutritional abnormalities is urgently needed.

The purpose of this Research Topic is to offer an insight into the current and novel nutritional assessment tools for the identification and monitoring of malnutrition in patients with chronic disease. We welcome submissions of relevant Original Research, Review, Mini-review, and Opinion articles.

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LILIA CASTILLO-MARTINEZ

National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán

Eloisa Colin-Ramirez

National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán

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