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Malnutrition and Increased Risk of Adverse Outcomes in Elderly Patients Undergoing Elective Colorectal Cancer Surgery: A Case-Control Study Nested in a Cohort.

Cristina Martínez-EscribanoFrancisco Javier Arteaga-MorenoMarcos Pérez-LópezCristina Cunha-PérezÁngel Belenguer-VareaDavid Cuesta PeredoFrancisco Javier Blanco GonzálezFrancisco José Tarazona Santabalbina
Published in: Nutrients (2022)
Malnutrition prevalence is high in older adults undergoing CRC elective surgery. Furthermore, this prevalence increases during hospital admission. Malnutrition is linked to worse outcomes, such as LOS, surgical and clinical complications, and mortality. For this reason, nutritional interventions are very important in the perioperative period.
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