RATIONALE: Currently there is no consensus on protein requirements for obese older adults during weight loss. Here we explore the potential use of a new method for assessment of protein requirements based on changes in appendicular muscle mass during weight loss. METHODS: 60 obese older adults were subjected …

Objective To identify malnutrition assessment methods in cancer patients and assess their content validity based on internationally accepted definitions for malnutrition. Study Design and Setting Systematic review of studies in cancer patients that operationalized malnutrition as a variable, published …

Background In a large randomized trial, Utrecht PROactive Frailty Intervention Trial (U‐PROFIT), we evaluated the effectiveness of an integrated program on the preservation of daily functioning in older people in primary care that consisted of a frailty identification tool and a multicomponent nurse‐led …

Background: Undernutrition is a common complication of disease and a major determinant of hospital stay outcome. Dutch hospitals are required to screen for undernutrition on the first day of admission. Objective: We sought to determine the prevalence of the screening score “undernourished” with the use …

The present document describes a nutritional approach that is nested in the European Innovation Partnership for Active and Healthy Aging (EIP-AHA) and aims to provide the first common European program translating an integrated approach to nutritional frailty in terms of a multidimensional and transnational …

Malnutrition, frailty and disability & nutritional assessment. Clinical signs of malnutrition, starvation, cachexia and sarcopenia overlap, as they all imply muscle wasting to a various extent, however the underlying mechanisms differ fundamentally and therefore distinction between these phenomena has …

Van 5-8 september wordt in Lissabon het ESPEN congres gehouden. Lees hier het abstract wat vanuit het DIEET-project gepresenteerd zal worden. Uit de eerste analyses blijkt dat cliënten vaker terugkomen na een eerste consult wanneer er metingen worden verricht en SMART doelen worden gesteld. Benieuwd …

Lezing voor ISMR congres, juni 2015, UMCG

Van screening naar geïntegreerde diagnostiek en monitoring van ondervoeding. Lezing over screening, assessment en monitoring van ondervoeding, op invitational symposium georganiseerd door Nij Smellinghe, 21 april 2015.