This case study reveals the nutritional support in a critically ill, overweight elderly patient with heart failure, myocardial infarction, pneumonia, and chronic kidney disease.
The study aims to investigate the nutritional status of and feeding practices for dysphagic older adult
inpatients in Vietnamese hospitals.
This review describes the pathophysiology of malnutrition, contributing factors to this condition, tools for nutritional status assessment, and key strategies for optimizing enteral nutrition therapy for the elderly.
Study of elderly patients with heart failure were randomly divided. New York Heart Association status, left ventricular ejection fraction, plasma B-type natriuretic peptide, interleukin-6, C-reactive protein, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha were recorded.