Endocrine Abstracts

Rationale: The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria was recently proposed as the world’s first diagnostic criteria for malnutrition in adults in hospital settings. The GLIM approach is based on the assessment of three phenotypic and two etiologic criteria, with diagnosis confirmed by any combination of one phenotypic and one etiologic criterion fulfilled. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence phenotypic criteria of GLIM in hospit...

Introduction / Background: Patients with advanced GEP-NENs often present with metabolic disorders and oncological treatments may increase malnutrition risk as well as alterations on body composition. Several studies have suggested that sarcopenia is independently associated with a worse prognosis in oncological patients. Sarcopenia predicts survival regardless of body weight; moreover, a reduced muscle mass is not only observed in cachectic individuals but also in overweight p...