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Nutritional risk screening of patients scheduled for rehabilitation after treatment for ischemic or valvular heart disease

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition volume 67, page 1116 (2013)Cite this article

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Although cardiovascular diseases represent an impressive burden on global health as they result in increased morbidity, life-long medical care and increased mortality,1 yet there is an overall paucity of studies assessing prevalence, severity and impact of malnutrition on cardiovascular patients’ outcome. This is particularly true for patients undergoing invasive treatments that may impair nutritional status.2 For these reasons, we recently started to screen nutritional risk in patients scheduled for cardiovascular rehabilitation following treatment for ischemic or valvular heart disease using the NRS-2002 tool. In particular, we were interested in assessing the prevalence of increased nutritional risk and its relationship with previous cardiovascular treatment, as well as standard anthropometrics.3

We here report a preliminary analysis (data presented as mean±s.d.) based on 221 patients, consecutively enrolled 1–6 months after cardiologic treatment, with a mean age of 61.9±11.2 years (range: 25–84 years). Regarding the treatment received, most of the patients underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; n=108) or surgery (n=100), and only 13 patients received conservative treatment. Surgical procedures included coronary artery bypass graft (n=86) and valvular surgery (n=28). Prevalence of atrial fibrillation, diabetes and severity of impairment of left ventricle systolic function were not significantly different among the treatment groups.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Thalassotherapia Opatija, Medical School University of Rijeka, Medical School University of Osijek, Opatija, Croatia

    M Boban, V Persic, A Rotim & B Miletic

  2. Department of Clinical Medicine, University “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy

    A Laviano

  3. Department of Pharmacology, Medical School, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

    Z Jovanovic

  4. Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    M Milosevic

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Boban, M., Persic, V., Laviano, A. et al. Nutritional risk screening of patients scheduled for rehabilitation after treatment for ischemic or valvular heart disease. Eur J Clin Nutr 67, 1116 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2013.102

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