Assessment of muscle mass in critically ill patients: role of the sarcopenia index and images studies.

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Preoperative nutritional support in severely malnourished patients decreases complications after major surgery. This review summarizes previous studies on head and neck cancer patients undergoing surgery, and offers recommendations on preoperative nutritional support based on the literature and our ex...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Bertrand PC,Piquet MA,Bordier I,Monnier P,Roulet M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To describe the recent advances in our understanding of fatty acids and lipids in paediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and their future implications. RECENT FINDINGS:Data have been accumulated to suggest that ceramides are the main drivers of hepatic insulin resistance in NAFLD, and in...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Mann JP,Feldstein AE,Nobili V

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The aim of this article is to emphasize the importance of malnutrition in frail institutionalized elderly and discuss recent interventions that have been shown to decrease its prevalence. RECENT FINDINGS:A Medline search was conducted from 1968 to 2007 under the search terms aging, nutrition, and nur...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Labossiere R,Bernard MA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The present review aims to address the role of adipose tissue oxygen partial pressure (PO2) in the metabolic and endocrine derangements in conditions characterized by insulin resistance. RECENT FINDINGS:The balance between adipose tissue oxygen supply and its metabolic rate seems to determine adipose...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Goossens GH,Blaak EE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Obesity continues to increase around the globe, and creates a major health problem because of its comorbidities such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Considering that the major cause of most human obesities is the modern lifestyle in a rapidly changing environment, this suggests that the battle...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Berthoud HR

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Preventing unintentional weight and muscle loss is of crucial importance to maintain the condition and well-being of patients with cancer, improve treatment response and tolerance, and prolong survival. Anabolic resistance might explain why some cancer patients do not respond to nutritional interventi...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Engelen MP,van der Meij BS,Deutz NE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Lipidomic profiling of biological samples is increasing in nutritional research applications. 'Lipidomic analyses' however can be quite variable in specific methods and the type of information about the specific lipids that is revealed. The lack of defined and simple terminology to describe aspects of...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Aristizabal Henao JJ,Bradley RM,Duncan RE,Stark KD

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:A compromised autophagy is associated with the onset of obesity, type 2 diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Our aim is to review the potential role of ghrelin, a gut hormone involved in energy homeostasis, in the regulation of autophagy. RECENT F...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Ezquerro S,Frühbeck G,Rodríguez A

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver plays a central role in the control of glucose production. It is also involved in the regulation of insulin secretion and sensitivity through neural pathways. This review will address recent developments in the mechanisms by which hepatic metabolism affects glucose homeostasis in health and disease. Oral glu...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Tappy L,Minehira K

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Randomized controlled trials can be difficult to conduct in critically ill patients and may not always be the most appropriate type of study. Cohort studies can provide valuable information in large complete populations of patients without strict exclusion criteria and without the need for informed co...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Vincent JL,Preiser JC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:There is considerable interest in glutamine and selenium in critical care as both offer the potential to enhance host defences, through different but complimentary mechanisms and may reduce subsequent infections and mortality. The SIGNET trial (randomized controlled factorial trial) is the largest, cr...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Andrews PJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To describe the evidences for and against the different nutritional and nonnutritional therapeutic approaches for severe alcoholic steatohepatitis, based on data from randomized controlled trials, in order to answer the question posed in the title: 'more of the same or something new?'. RECENT FINDING...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Cabré E

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Home artificial nutrition is a mature technology that has been with us for over a quarter of a century. Its use appears to be more widespread in the USA than in other western countries. Issues of outcome, ethics, and quality of life are increasingly important. Complications continue to be reported, some newly recogniz...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Lipman TO

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Intestinal transplantation is the alternative treatment in patients with irreversible intestinal failure, who depend on long-term parenteral nutrition. Nutrition management after intestinal transplantation should contribute to reducing the risk of graft rejection, to improving gut trophicity and shoul...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Colomb V,Goulet O

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Dietary fiber and prebiotics have been the focus of research and discussion for decades, but there are still pending concepts and definitions, in particular when addressing their use in the prevention and treatment of diarrhea. The purpose of this review is to present the latest advances in the unders...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Generoso SV,Lages PC,Correia MITD

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The purpose of this review is to highlight recent methodological advances that have helped us to understand the role of intramuscular triglycerides in human health as well as prevention and treatment of disease. In addition to both invasive (muscle biopsy) and noninvasive methods, techniques to assess...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Dubé J,Goodpaster BH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-nutrient interactions have been recognized for decades. It is known that improper management of some of these interactions may lead to therapeutic failure or cause serious adverse effects to the patients. While most of the known drug-nutrient interactions involve changes in oral bioavailabilities and absorption o...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Chan LN

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude measurements of nutritional status, such as body weight, are inadequate to assess the severity and consequence of malnutrition among inflammatory bowel disease patients. Functional deficiency resulting in osteopenia and muscle weakness have been demonstrated in these patients when compared to controls. Manipulat...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Burke A,Lichtenstein GR,Rombeau JL

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To review the recent work on potential mechanisms underlying a paradoxical positive association between the consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) and weight gain. RECENT FINDINGS:Several potential mechanisms, not mutually exclusive, are hypothesized. First, by dissociating sweetness from calo...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Pepino MY,Bourne C

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To summarize recent advances pertaining to the mechanisms regulating brain docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) uptake. DHA is an omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid highly enriched in neuronal membranes and it is implicated in several important neurological processes. However, DHA synthesis is extremely limited...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Chouinard-Watkins R,Lacombe RJS,Bazinet RP

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To understand the interest of functional food in low-income countries by analyzing various necessary factors. RECENT FINDINGS:Being on a low income would appear to relate most often to an unbalanced diet, both qualitatively and quantitatively, which may be damaging to health in the long term. Most ch...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Das A,Chakraborty R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:In this review methods to measure the content and distribution of body fat or adipose tissue in humans are examined. The review particularly emphasizes methods to characterize regional fat distribution and ectopic fat (fat contained within other tissues) including specific applications and implication...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Goodpaster BH

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To summarize recent conceptual frameworks and empirical findings addressing the role of prenatal stress and stress biology in the context of fetal programming of metabolic function and obesity risk. RECENT FINDINGS:The link between stress exposure and adverse health outcomes is well established. Grow...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Entringer S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine is a non-essential amino acid in mammals as judged from nitrogen balance study. Citrulline is synthesized from glutamate in the small intestine, whilst kidneys and some other tissues convert citrulline to arginine. Ornithine transcarbamylase and carbamylphosphate synthetase are expressed in liver and small in...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Wakabayashi Y

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The gastrointestinal tract plays an important role in the maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance, and its diseases cause disturbances in that balance. Conversely, fluid and electrolyte disorders may disturb gastrointestinal function. The purpose of this review is to highlight some recent literat...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Macafee DA,Allison SP,Lobo DN

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Dyspepsia is a common disorder that presents as persistent or recurrent abdominal pain or discomfort in the upper abdomen and originates from organic or functional causes. Heterogeneous disorders, physiopathological, psychosomatic, sociocultural, demographic and genetic components have a great impact ...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： de Baptista GA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Folic acid is now considered an important functional food component: it lowers potentially toxic homocysteine, prevents birth defects and modulates the risk of several cancers. The complexity of interactions involved, however, means we still have much to learn about the role of folate and homocysteine...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Lucock MD

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This article is intended to briefly overview available methodological approaches for the study of regional metabolism in man in vivo, and to summarize recent advances in this field of research. RECENT FINDINGS:Several methods have been developed and currently allow for the qualitative and quantitativ...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Magkos F,Sidossis LS

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Ergonomics in total parenteral nutrition include the work performed in the (hospital) pharmacy and on the medical ward. This article reviews the developments in total parenteral nutrition ergonomics and the related cost-savings. RECENT FINDINGS:Research focuses on the ergonomic advantages of multi-co...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Genton L,Mühlebach S,Dupertuis YM,Pichard C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The term oxidative stress is often used to indicate a condition in which the accumulation of reactive oxygen species is considered just damaging. We will discuss both the physiological and pathological role of oxidative stress on skeletal muscle homeostasis and function, and how oxidative stress can a...

journal_title：Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care

authors： Musarò A,Fulle S,Fanò G

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00