Endocrine Abstracts

Nutritional status has an important effect on the progression of any disease, not only in hospitalized patients, even more in ambulatory patient of primary care. Although there are many systems of evaluating nutritional status, they are costly and subject to variability amongst individuals. The Medicine Laboratory can correctly perform a nutritional evaluation in a quick an efficient manner.Objective: Analyze the nutritional status by CONUT nutritional e...

Introduction: Altered nutritional status is a problem in itself that can complicate a patient’s disease. In our hospital, the assessment of nutritional status at hospital admission is protocolized and performed by the Clinical Laboratory automatically, through the CONUT system, for three years ago. Our hospital provides assistance to a population of 120,000 patients, from rural areas and with a high average age. Hospital admissions for cognitive impairment are increasing ...