Mangelernährung

Key facts

Medical condition.name

Malnutrition

Medical condition.image

A malnourished child in an MSF treatment tent in Dolo Ado.jpg

Medical condition.caption

Underfed child in Dolo Ado, Ethiopia, at an MSF treatment tent

Medical condition.field

Critical care medicine

Medical condition.image_size

280px

Medical condition.symptoms

Problems with physical or mental development; poor energy levels; hair loss; swollen legs and abdomen

Medical condition.causes

Eating a diet with too few or too many nutrients; malabsorption

Medical condition.risks

Lack of breastfeeding; gastroenteritis; pneumonia; malaria; measles; poverty; homelessness

Medical condition.prevention

Improving agricultural practices; reducing poverty; improving sanitation; education

Medical condition.treatment

Improved nutrition; supplementation; ready-to-use therapeutic foods; treating the underlying cause

Medical condition.medication

Eating food with enough nutrients on a near daily basis

Medical condition.frequency

673 million undernourished / 8.2% of the population (2024)

Medical condition.deaths

406,000 from nutritional deficiencies (2015)

via Wikipedia infobox

• Malnutrition in Hospitalized Old Patients: Screening and Diagnosis, Clinical Outcomes, and Management.ReviewNutrients · 2022Bellanti F, Lo Buglio A, Quiete S et al.DOI: 10.3390/nu14040910
• Malnutrition in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis.ReviewNutrients · 2021Traub J, Reiss L, Aliwa B et al.DOI: 10.3390/nu13020540
• Diagnosing Pediatric Malnutrition.ReviewNutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2017Bouma SDOI: 10.1177/0884533616671861
• Key approaches to diagnosing malnutrition in adults.ReviewNutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2022Malone A, Mogensen KMDOI: 10.1002/ncp.10810
• Prognostic impact of disease-related malnutrition.ReviewClinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2008Norman K, Pichard C, Lochs H et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2007.10.007
• Consensus statement: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition: characteristics recommended for the identification and documentation of adult malnutrition (undernutrition).JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition · 2012White JV, Guenter P, Jensen G et al.DOI: 10.1177/0148607112440285
• Role of the nutrition-focused physical examination in identifying malnutrition and its effectiveness.ReviewNutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2022Hummell AC, Cummings MDOI: 10.1002/ncp.10797
• GLIM criteria to identify malnutrition in patients in hospital settings: A systematic review.JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition · 2023Alves LF, de Jesus JDS, Britto VNM et al.DOI: 10.1002/jpen.2533

via PubMed

Wikidata facts

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clinical sign

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