Nutritional risk screening and analysis in hospitalized patients from department of gastroenterology

Abstract

Objective To investigate and analyze the prevalence of nutritional risk and it's attribution among hospitalized patients from department of gastroenterology.Methods Continuous sampling was adopted,Nutrition Risk Screening (NRS) 2002 standard was used to assess the patients' nutrition status when they admission and hospitalized a week later.The changes of other nutritional indicators simultaneously was observed.Results The rate of nutritional risk in 383 hospitalized patients was 35.25％,and the incidence of patients with more than 70 years older significantly higher than that of patients with less 70 years older (53.2％ vs 32.7％,x2 =7.558,P ＜ 0.05).The most likely to have nutritional risk was pancreatitis patients (71.43％),then was patients with severe hepatitis (50％),liver malignancy (50％) and cirrhosis (40.45％).The nutritional risk of 173 patients in one week later after admission was significantly lower than that of admission (24.86％ vs 35.83％,x2 =4.936,P ＜ 0.05).The change in body weight,body water rate,muscle mass,bone mass,hemoglobin and prealbumin of the patients were statistically significant (t/Z =2.407,-2.837,-3.432,-3.029,-2.812,-2.181,respectively;P＜0.05).Conclusions Clinical doctors should pay attention to the patients with pancreatitis,severe hepatitis,liver malignancy and cirrhosis about their nutritional status,so they can discover the nutritional risk of the patients promptly,and carry out the nutrition intervention appropriately. Key words: Gastroenterology; Hospitalize; Nutritional risk ; Nutritional Risk Screening 2002