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.
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Review Meta Analysis
Immunonutrition in the intensive care unit. A systematic review and consensus statement.
To systematically review the effects of enteral nutrition with pharmaconutrients-enriched diets in critically ill patients and to establish recommendations for their use. ⋯ Considering the beneficial effects and the absence of detrimental ones, the use of diets enriched with pharmaconutrients could be recommended in ICU patients requiring enteral feeding. Nevertheless, more investigation is needed in this field in order to find the more appropriate population of patients that can benefit from this nutritional therapy.