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[Incidence of malnutrition in a surgery department]
J Larrea1, J M Torrent, E Pérez
1Servicio de Cirugía General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Insular, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Nutricion Hospitalaria
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
Presentation of a description of the initial results obtained in nutritional evaluation of patients admitted for elective surgery during a 6-month period. A total of 212 patients were studied, recording malnutrition in 25%. This was severe in half of the cases. As a result of the malnutrition, a significant reduction was observed in the number of positive responses to the Multitest and the total count of lymphocytes.