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Malnutrition is a commonly-recognized cause of intrahospital mortality and morbidity. Two main types of hospital malnutrition are observed. 1) Patients may develop nutritional deficiencies before or after admission. These patients may have coexisting diseases which can affect their metabolism (neoplastic disease and chemotherapy; diabetes mellitus; renal insufficiency). 2) Others suffer from diseases affecting intake, digestion and assimilation of nutrients (eg, ill-fitting dentures, strictures of the gastrointestinal tract, resection of intestine, fistulas, and malabsorption syndrome). Adverse social conditions (elderly and lonely persons) or poverty predispose to malnutrition. Some psychologic and psychiatric disorders may lead to a complete refusal to eat, as in anorexia nervosa, or lack of a balanced variegated diet (eg, living on toast, coffee, and cereal, etc).
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Makarewicz, P.A., Freeman, J.B. (1985). Diagnosis and Treatment of Malnutrition in the Traumatized Patient. In: Uhthoff, H.K., Stahl, E. (eds) Current Concepts of Infections in Orthopedic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69833-0_3
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