Applied nutritional investigation
Prevalence of hospital malnutrition in Latin America:: The multicenter ELAN study
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Abstract
Objective
We determined the nutrition status and prevalence of malnutrition as determined by the Subjective Global Assessment in Latin America, investigated the awareness of the health team with regard to nutrition status, evaluated the use of nutritional therapy, and assessed the governmental policies regulating the practice of nutritional therapy in each country.
Methods
This cross-sectional, multicenter epidemiologic study enrolled 9348 hospitalized patients older than 18 y in Latin America. Student’s t test and chi-square tests were used to analyze univariate analysis and multiple logistic regression analysis, respectively.