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Nutritional status in patients with alcoholic liver disease
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Objective: To evaluate the nutritional status of patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) through body mass index (BMI), serum prealbumin and subjective global assessment (SGA) method. Subject and method: Prospective, cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on 77 patients with ALD in Digestive Department of No.103 Military Hospital. Measurement of body mass index, serum prealbumin concentration and assessment of the malnutrition risk by using SGA tool. Result: The prevalence of malnutrition in patients with ALD according to BMI and serum prealbumin was 25.9% and 46.8% with moderate malnutrition in 70.0% and 44.5% of them, respectively. The malnutrition risk assessed by SGA method was 66.3% and 22.1% of these patients were classified as severely malnourished. There was a relationship between nutritional assessment according to SGA method with BMI and serum prealbumin in patients with ALD. Conclusion: The malnutrition was common in patients with ALD and should be assessed with multiple methods.
Keywords: Malnutrition, alcoholic liver disease, subjective global assessment.
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