About this Research Topic
Nutritional disorders are related to poor health outcomes including longer hospital stays, postoperative complications, cancer treatment toxicity, shorter survival, and reduced quality of life. The use of nutritional assessment tools for both diagnostic and outcome measure purposes has been widely explored. However, understanding of their responsiveness to nutritional interventions is still in its incipient stages.
There has been increasing awareness of the importance of nutritional screening and assessment, especially the integration of skeletal muscle mass evaluation into clinical practice. In this context, a standardized definition of low muscle mass, myosteatosis, and muscle strength is still under debate. Since there is no clear definition of proper cut-off points for each assessment tool, the understanding and synthesis of the literature results are hindered. Moreover, the interplay among nutritional disorders has been under-explored in literature research. Efforts should be made to assess the association between comprehensive nutritional diagnosis and the prognosis of chronic diseases and surgical outcomes, as most studies provide information on one feature of nutritional status and do not explore standardized nutritional assessment widely.
This Research Topic aims to provide a comprehensive update on scientific evidence regarding nutritional status assessment tools as prognostic indicators for clinical and surgical outcomes. We welcome contributions of original research, systematic reviews, narrative reviews, methods articles, and perspectives covering the role of nutritional status screening and assessment tools in chronic diseases and surgical outcomes. We particularly welcome prospective studies on themes such as:
• managing barriers to integrating body composition assessment into clinical practice
• integrating nutrition and functional status screening as prognostic tools
We also encourage studies carried out in low- and middle-income countries due to the knowledge gap we have in these regions. Additional subtopics include, but are not limited:
• Advances in screening, assessment, and diagnosis of nutritional disorders linked to chronic diseases and surgical settings, such as malnutrition, sarcopenia, frailty, and obesity;
• Assessment of the prevalence of nutritional disorders in chronic diseases and surgical settings;
• Identification of population-based cutoff values for low muscle mass, strength, and myosteatosis;
• Association of nutritional assessment parameters with outcomes in chronic diseases or surgery;
• Analysis of the prevalence of body composition phenotypes linked to clinical or surgical outcomes, with special attention to sarcopenic obesity.
There has been increasing awareness of the importance of nutritional screening and assessment, especially the integration of skeletal muscle mass evaluation into clinical practice. In this context, a standardized definition of low muscle mass, myosteatosis, and muscle strength is still under debate. Since there is no clear definition of proper cut-off points for each assessment tool, the understanding and synthesis of the literature results are hindered. Moreover, the interplay among nutritional disorders has been under-explored in literature research. Efforts should be made to assess the association between comprehensive nutritional diagnosis and the prognosis of chronic diseases and surgical outcomes, as most studies provide information on one feature of nutritional status and do not explore standardized nutritional assessment widely.
This Research Topic aims to provide a comprehensive update on scientific evidence regarding nutritional status assessment tools as prognostic indicators for clinical and surgical outcomes. We welcome contributions of original research, systematic reviews, narrative reviews, methods articles, and perspectives covering the role of nutritional status screening and assessment tools in chronic diseases and surgical outcomes. We particularly welcome prospective studies on themes such as:
• managing barriers to integrating body composition assessment into clinical practice
• integrating nutrition and functional status screening as prognostic tools
We also encourage studies carried out in low- and middle-income countries due to the knowledge gap we have in these regions. Additional subtopics include, but are not limited:
• Advances in screening, assessment, and diagnosis of nutritional disorders linked to chronic diseases and surgical settings, such as malnutrition, sarcopenia, frailty, and obesity;
• Assessment of the prevalence of nutritional disorders in chronic diseases and surgical settings;
• Identification of population-based cutoff values for low muscle mass, strength, and myosteatosis;
• Association of nutritional assessment parameters with outcomes in chronic diseases or surgery;
• Analysis of the prevalence of body composition phenotypes linked to clinical or surgical outcomes, with special attention to sarcopenic obesity.
Keywords: Nutritional screening, Malnutrition, Cachexia, Sarcopenia, Frailty, Obesity, Vitamin deficiencies, Body composition, Muscle wasting, Surgery, Cancer, Chronic kidney disease, Chronic diseases, Health outcomes, Mortality
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