María Martín-Fuentes, Blanca Varas de Dios, Ana María Valverde Villar, Rosalía Sánchez Almaraz, Almudena Pérez Torres, Lucía Iglesias Domínguez, Nuria Muñoz García, Yolanda Guindal Pérez, Paloma Aragonés Maza, Carlos María Reche Sainz, Irene Espina Flores, Inmaculada Neira Borrajo, Vicente Romero Estarlich
INTRODUCTION: malnutrition, both due to deficiency and excess of nutrients, is related to the morbidity of the surgical patient. OBJECTIVES: to analyze the nutritional status, body composition and bone health of patients undergoing elective knee and hip arthroplasty. METHODS: an observational cross-sectional study was carried out evaluating patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery from February to September 2019. The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), anthropometry, hand-grip dynamometry, bone densitometry, lumbar spine X-ray and bioimpedance analysis were performed...
April 11, 2023: Nutrición Hospitalaria: Organo Oficial de la Sociedad Española de Nutrición Parenteral y Enteral