Nutritional status and wound severity of overweight and obese patients with venous leg ulcers: A pilot study

Journal of Vascular Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 43-52

  Tobón, Jeniffer ^a   Whitney, JoAnne D ^a   Jarrett, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; RETINOL; SERUM ALBUMIN; ZINC;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PILOT STUDY; UNITED STATES; VARICOSIS;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASCORBIC ACID; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PILOT PROJECTS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VARICOSE ULCER; VITAMIN A; ZINC;

EID: 43449110710     PISSN: 10620303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvn.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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