PREVALENCE OF MALNUTRITION, ACCORDING TO THE GLIM CRITERIA, IN PATIENTS WHO ARE THE CANDIDATES FOR GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SURGERY.
Maurício Luann Dantas Dos SantosLuana de Oliveira LeiteIsolda Carneiro Freitas LagesPublished in: Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery (2022)
An important prevalence of nutritional risk assessed by the NRS-2002 and of malnutrition assessed by the GLIM method was identified, especially in its severe form. In addition, preoperative patients with nutritional risk, as detected using the NRS-2002 nutritional screening tool, and candidates for oncologic surgery are more likely to be diagnosed as malnourished using the GLIM criteria.
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