Jorge Luis Gutiérrez De Santiago , Sandra Aguilar Valdez , Myrella Leticia Casas Robles , Idalia Garza Veloz , Vicente Ortega Cisneros , Margarita de la Luz Martínez Fierro

Introduction: worldwide, hospital malnutrition constitutes an important issue of morbidity and mortality. Although the prevalence of malnutrition has been calculated as between 7% and 27% in hospitalized patients, its real prevalence remains unknown or underestimated because of the different criteria for its identification and diagnosis. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of nutritional risk in a cohort of hospitalized patients and to identify the significance of the predictors associated with nutritional risk. Methods: the evaluation of the presence of nutritional risk was carried out in 247 individuals hospitalized at the second-level care institution Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales para los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) Zacatecas, Hospital General Nº 26, in Mexico. Nutritional screening was evaluated during the first 24 hours of stay with the NRS 2002. The weighing of associated variables with nutritional risk was calculated statistically using the software Sigma Plot v11. Results: forty-two percent of patients were at risk of malnutrition. Significant associations between nutritional risk and a reduction in food ingestion (during the last week), the illness severity of the patient, as well as age and sex (p < 0.05), were observed. A reduction in food ingestion during the previous week increased the likelihood of having nutritional risk 6.67 times more (95% CI: 3.4-13.2; p < 0.001) in the studied population. Conclusion: malnutrition in hospitalized patients at ISSSTE-Zacatecas, Hospital General Nº 26 is frequent (42%). Therefore, early detection of nutritional risk is important to offer for proper nutritional intervention with the objective of decreasing the associated morbidity and mortality.

Hospital malnutrition. Nutritional risk. Nutritional screening.

---

---

---

1. Abordaje nutricional del enfermo oncohematológico. best-practice en españa
2. La desnutrición hospitalaria: un viejo problema sin resolver
3. Detección del riesgo de desnutrición en el medio hospitalario detection of malnutrition risk in hospital
4. Prevalencia de riesgo de desnutrición y desnutrición establecida en población ambulatoria, institucionalizada y hospitalizada en un departamento de salud
5. Repercusiones clínicas y económicas de la desnutrición relacionada con la enfermedad en un servicio quirúrgico
6. Validación del cribado nutricional malnutrition screening tool comparado con la valoración nutricional completa y otros cribados en distintos ámbitos sociosanitarios
7. Optimización del cribado nutricional cipa: ¿son necesarios dos parámetros proteicos?
8. Cribado nutricional en pacientes oncológicos: análisis de tres métodos
9. Relación entre la escala de riesgo nutricional nutric y el hipercatabolismo proteico en pacientes críticos ventilados
10. Cribado nutricional y eficiencia
11. ¿Es válido el cribado nutricional de los ancianos a través del Mini Nutritional Assesment (MNA-SF) en su versión corta adaptada al castellano?

---