A comprehensive review assessed the ways that proper nutrition could help reduce the adverse effects of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with hepatic encephalopathy. A recent review published in the ...

Stakeholders are developing and testing screening tools and interventions to address nutrition insecurity, additive to and distinct from food insecurity. Given nutrition and health inequities in ...

Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) has been considered a promising technique in monitoring the nutritional and hydration status of patients with different types of diseases. The aim of ...

This activity was supported by a contract between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Dietary Supplements (contract no. HHSN263201800029I). Any opinions, ...

The following is an installment of the "Try This" series published by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. The content is intended to encourage nurses to understand the ...

Adjunct nutritional therapies may be a simple way to improve the prognosis for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension who are hospitalized ...

Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) is an evidence-based, individualized nutrition process meant to help treat certain medical conditions. The term was introduced in 1994 by what is now the Academy of ...

Excess fat is viewed as the prime factor governing the level of specific gravity. Precise measurements, however, of this excess fat will necessarily await a knowledge of the relative percentage ...

Aspiring registered dietitians in the University of Delaware’s College of Health Sciences are helping redesign food pantries with cultural awareness in mind. Robson, an associate professor in the ...

No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2006 ASCO Annual Meeting. This abstract does not include a full text component.