Clinical nutrition : official journal of the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
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Review Meta Analysis Comparative Study
Dietary advice and nutritional supplements in the management of illness-related malnutrition: systematic review.
This review investigated whether dietary advice to improve nutritional intake in adults with illness-related malnutrition improved mortality, morbidity, weight and energy intake, and whether oral nutritional supplements gave additional benefit, when given in combination with dietary advice. ⋯ Nutritional supplements may have a greater role than dietary advice in the short-term improvement of body weight in illness-related malnutrition. There is a lack of evidence to support dietary advice in the management of illness-related malnutrition, but this is based on few, often poor quality, studies.