BMI and FFMI do not seem universally applicable in nutritional assessment and the usefulness of SGA and functional evaluation should not be overlooked

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 236-

  Mokaddem, Fady ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier de l'Ardenne   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE EDEMA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BODY BUILD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; FAT FREE MASS INDEX; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PROGNOSIS; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; CONSENSUS; FEMALE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; STANDARDS;

CONSENSUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84973160823     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2015.07.025     Document Type: Letter

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