Nutrition & Dietetics Research

KEY FINDING: Providers use clinical expertise by monitoring weight, educating patients, and providing resources. Checking progress, tracking health indicators, stressing risks, educating, encouraging healthy behaviors, and helping access resources were key strategies.

KEY FINDING: Postabsorptive fat oxidation at rest was significantly and positively correlated with postprandial peak fat oxidation.

KEY FINDING: Individuals with SCI often have an increased risk of neurogenic obesity, which results from dysfunction of energy metabolism, physical deconditioning, and altered hormonal homeostasis.

KEY FINDING: LcS did not significantly reduce the overall occurrence of AAD at 30 days in the entire SCI patient group (45% vs 42.1%, p = 0.639).

KEY FINDING: 76% of patients admitted to the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) had low vitamin D levels (<30 ng/mL).

KEY FINDING: Healthy eating for individuals with SCI revolves around types of food, amounts/portions, mindful eating, and eating to enhance health, with specific requests for tailored dietary information.

KEY FINDING: The primary outcome is the change in vitamin D status after 12 months of supplementation.

KEY FINDING: Patients receiving WS-ONS had a significantly greater reduction in wound surface area at discharge compared to the control group (61.1% vs 34.5%).

KEY FINDING: Carbohydrates were negatively associated with several measures of fat mass as measured by DXA.

KEY FINDING: Malnutrition and sarcopenia are common in COVID-19 patients due to factors like inactivity, comorbidities, and the body's inflammatory response.