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Weight gain is associated with breast cancer treatment. This prospective study determined if body weight, fat-free mass (FFM) and body fat mass (BF) change and if changes are related to psychosocial factors or changes in physical activity or food intake during curative radiotherapy. This is the first longitudinal study of body composition during curative breast cancer radiotherapy.Thirty-seven patients...
Atherogenic blood lipoprotein levels are dramatically increased during menopause. The solubilization of plant sterols (PS) in a diacylglycerol (DAG)-rich oil has recently been proposed as a more effective method of incorporating PS into food products; however, the effect of PS solubilized in DAG oil on serum lipid abnormalities in women after menopause is unknown. The effect of the daily consumption...
It is well known that there is a discrepancy between prescribed and delivered enteral nutrition in intensive care units. So far the contribution of infusion pumps has received little attention. The objective of this study was to assess the role of infusion pump inaccuracy in the supply of enteral nutrition.Observational study over a period of 1 month.Mixed medical and surgical tertiary academic intensive...
Recent studies have documented that β-conglycinin, a soybean protein, is effective in improving levels of lipids including serum triacylglycerol. However, β-conglycinin has rarely been studied clinically. In the present study, its effects on serum lipids were examined in subjects with mild hypertriacylglycerolemia.Sixty-eight subjects with serum triacylglycerol levels of 1.70–3.39mM participated in...
Knee-heel length has been validated in elderly patients as a means to estimate body height. It is accurate and conveys a sufficient precision when it is used to calculate body mass index, and body surface area. This study was undertaken to validate body height estimated from knee-heel length in middle age Caucasian adults.A population of 2789 subjects was recruited in health care centres. They had...
Selenomethionine, a common form of dietary selenium that is sometimes used to supplement patients with selenium deficiency, must be degraded to an inorganic form of selenium for incorporation into selenium-specific proteins (selenoprotein), and cysteine, which is occasionally added in the total parenteral nutrition preparation, might influence the degradation of selenomethionine. The purpose of this...
A valid, quick-and-easy screening tool to detect undernutrition, is an essential requisite to treat undernutrition. In order to select quick-and-easy screening tools with high analytical accuracy for the general hospital in-, and outpatient population, a systematic review at sensitivity and specificity studies were performed.The electronic databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and the Cochrane Library...
The enzymatic immaturity of the amino acid metabolic pathways in preterm infants makes these children vulnerable to deficiencies or amino acid excess. The purposes of this study was to evaluate the plasma amino acid profile of preterm infants fed one of three diets, and then compare them to the reference standards for preterm infants.Thirty low-birthweight preterm infants were randomly assigned to...
Background & aims: A major treatment goal in patients with diabetes and/or hyperglycaemia is to achieve normalized plasma glucose and triglyceride levels, also for those receiving nutritional support. The aim of this study was to assess the short-term effect of continuous application of different tube feeds on postprandial glucose and triglyceride levels.Methods: In a double blind, cross-over...
l-glutamine (l-Gln) is involved in several metabolic processes, and is classified as an essential amino acid in demanding metabolic conditions. The amino acids Gln, cysteine and glycine are the precursors of the tripeptide glutathione synthesis, which is present in cells mainly in the reduced form, one of the most important endogeneous antioxidant defense front. Considering that Gln, as glucose (Gluc),...
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