Is Serum Albumin a Marker of Malnutrition in Chronic Disease? The Scleroderma Paradigm

Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 144-151

  Baron, Murray ^a   Hudson, Marie ^a   Steele, Russell ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Malnutrition; Multivariate analysis; Scleroderma; Serum albumin; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DERMATOLOGY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MALNUTRITION UNIVERSAL SCREENING TOOL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RODNAN SKIN SCORE; SCLERODERMA; SCLERODERMA DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SERUM ALBUMIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956485173     PISSN: 07315724     EISSN: 15411087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07315724.2010.10719828     Document Type: Article

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