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Overview of Nutritional Assessment

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Nutrition and Rheumatic Disease

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• Nutritional status consists of more than dietary intake.

• Six key aspects of nutritional status assessment are ABCDEFs: anthropometry, biochemical tests, clinical indices, dietary status, environmental influences, and functional indices.

• Nutritional status assessment includes the ABCDEFs, but may require special adoptions for some of the arthritis and rheumatic diseases.

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    Laura A. Coleman PhD, RD

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Baird, S., Dwyer, J., Evans, E. (2008). Overview of Nutritional Assessment. In: Coleman, L.A. (eds) Nutrition and Rheumatic Disease. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-403-2_2

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