Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Nutrition Support [Paperback]

Written in conjunction with the British Dietetic Association, Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Nutrition Support provides a thorough and critical review of the fundamental and applied literature in nutrition support.

Extensively evidence-based and internationally relevant, it discusses undernutrition, nutritional screening, assessment and interventions, as well as key clinical conditions likely to require nutrition support, and the approaches to managing this in each of these conditions.

Clinically oriented, Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Nutrition Support is the ideal reference for all those managing undernutrition in a range of clinical areas.

Preface ix

Foreword xi

Editor biographies xii

Contributors xiii

Abbreviations xvii

SECTION 1 Background to undernutrition 1

1.1 Definitions and prevalence of undernutrition 3

1.2 Physiological causes of undernutrition 6

1.3 Socioeconomic causes of undernutrition 15

1.4 Institutional causes of undernutrition 25

1.5 Consequences of undernutrition 33

SECTION 2 Identification of undernutrition 43

2.1 Nutritional screening 45

2.2 Nutritional assessment 50

2.3 Anthropometric assessment of undernutrition 55

2.4 Biochemical assessment in undernutrition 65

2.5 Clinical assessment of undernutrition 74

2.6 Dietary assessment in undernutrition 82

2.7 Advanced imaging techniques for assessment of undernutrition 91

SECTION 3 Nutritional requirements in nutrition support 107

3.1 Fluid requirements and l“,