Objective: Patients with chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI) are at high risk for amputation and other cardiovascular adverse events. Nutrition-related symptoms and malnutrition are common in the CLTI population, and lead to worse clinical outcomes. Understanding of the factors influencing nutritional …

Muscle Masterclass Nutricia: Connecting the dots between malnutrition, sarcopenia and frailty risk

In 2010, the definition of cachexia was jointly developed by the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) Special Interest Groups (SIG) "Cachexia-anorexia in chronic wasting diseases" and "Nutrition in geriatrics". Cachexia was considered as a synonym of disease-related malnutrition …

Background: A positive association between obesity based on body mass index (BMI) and periodontitis has been reported. Fat tissue-related systemic inflammation acts as the link to periodontal comorbidities of obesity. However, the BMI is unable to distinguish fat and fat-free tissues. More precise measures …

The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) is an instrument to screen, assess and monitor malnutrition and risk factors, and to triage for interventions. After having translated and culturally adapted the original PG-SGA for the Italian setting, according to International Society for …

In dit project – uitgevoerd door onderzoekers van het lectoraat Samenwerkende Professionals van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) en het lectoraat Organiseren van Waardig Werk van Hogeschool Utrecht (HU) – stond de vraag centraal hoe medewerkers in mkb-organisaties op hybride wijze effectief en met behoud …

Background: Frailty in older adults is an increasing challenge for individuals, health care organizations and public health, both globally and in The Netherlands. To focus on frailty prevention from a public health perspective, understanding of frailty status is needed. To enable measurement of frailty …

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Stedelijke bedrijventerreinen staan door woningbouwambities onder druk. Anderzijds wordt waardevolle milieuruimte op bedrijventerreinen vaak nog onderbenut, doordat er bedrijven zitten die best gemixt kunnen worden met ander functies in (centrum)stedelijke zones, wijkcentra of woonomgevingen. Maar dan …