Nutritional status and economic status in liver transplant candidates / Avaliação nutricional e nivel socioeconomico de candidatos a transplante de figado

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Malnutrition is an usual complication in undergoing transplant patients, therefore nutritional assessment is essential for an early nutritional intervention to recuperate or maintain a sufficient weight. Economic status can be useful to offer a right nutritional guide and suppose dietary adherence taken with food acquirement and adequate nutritional status maintenance. The purpose was to evaluate nutritional of cirrhotic patients on the waiting list for liver transplantation and verify the association between found nutritional status and parameters like: age, sex, liver damage and economic status. Eighty patients on the waiting list for liver transplantation were prospectively evaluated. For nutritional status, evaluated anthropometric measures were: weight (Kg) and height (m), to establish Body Mass Index (BMI). Arm circumference (cm), Triciptal Skin Fold (mm), Muscular Arm Area (cm2) and Muscular Arm circumference (cm) were measured for Nutritional Adequacy. The patients were arranged according to Social Economic Profile classified by ABEP (Brazilian Association of Research Company) and Brazil Economical Classification (Classificação Econômica Brasil). For liver damage was applied MELD score and Child-Pugh classification. Statistic analysis was made using chi-square tests, Pearson and Kappa correlation and ANOVA (analysis of variance). Malnutrition was found in 56,25%, when Nutritional Adequacy was applied and 63,75% overweight using BMI; the correlation between the two methods resulted in an intermediate concordance (Kappa = 0.5) for those categorized and strong (Pearson = 0.73, p <0.05) for values expressed in numbers. We observed that according to Social Economic Profile we had 36.25% of the patients on group B, 47.5% on group C and 16.25% on group D. The Child-Pugh classification showed A in 20%, B in 57,5% and C in 22,5% of the patients. MELD score was 14.96 ± 4.27. Women had more preserved nutritional status when compared with men (p<0,05), when nutritional adequacy was used. No statistical association was found between nutritional status and the others parameters. The results showed that age, sex, liver damage or economic status did not influence the nutritional status of those evaluated, regardless of the method applied

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liver nutritional status fígado - transplante estado nutricional avaliação nutricional nutritional assessment

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