Usefulness of the mini nutritional assessment in predicting the nutritional status of patients with liver cancer in Taiwan

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 334-341

  Tsai, Alan C ^a,b   Hsu, Wei Chung ^c   Chan, Shu Ching ^a   Chang, Tusi Lan ^a  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHENG CHING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALF CIRCUMFERENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; APPETITE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

EID: 79957564238     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: 15327914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2011.535966     Document Type: Article

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