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ReviewFrontiers in nutrition2022

Underlying Causes and Co-existence of Malnutrition and Infections: An Exceedingly Common Death Risk in Cancer.

Yuanyuan Fan, Qianqian Yao, Yufeng Liu, Tiantian Jia, Junjuan Zhang, Enshe Jiang

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Review in Frontiers in nutrition, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yuanyuan FanSchool of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.
Qianqian YaoInstitute of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.
Yufeng LiuInstitute of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.
Tiantian JiaInstitute of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.
Junjuan ZhangDeDepartment of Orthopedics, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China.
Enshe JiangInstitute of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.
Henan University · CNHenan Provincial People's Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In nutrition science, malnutrition is a state of imbalance between intake and the needs of the organism, leading to metabolic changes, impaired physiological functions, and weight loss. Regardless of the countless efforts being taken and researched for years, the burden of malnutrition is still alarming and considered a significant agent of mortality across the globe. Around 45% of 12 million children deaths (0-5 years old) annually are due to malnutrition, mostly from developing countries. Malnutrition develops associations with other infections and leads to substantial clinical outcomes, such as mortality, more visits to hospitals, poor quality of life and physical frailty, and socioeconomic issues. Here, in this review, we intend to provide an overview of the current burden, underlying risk factors, and co-existence of malnutrition and other infections, such as cancer. Following the rising concern of the vicious interplay of malnutrition and other medical illnesses, we believed that this narrative review would highlight the need to re-make and re-define the future strategies by giving comprehensive and sustainable programs to alleviate poverty and combat the rampant infectious diseases and those nutrition-related health problems. Furthermore, the study also raises the concern for hospitalized malnourished cancer patients as it is crucially important to knowledge the caregiver healthcare staff for early interventions of providing nutritional support to delay or prevent the onset of malnutrition.

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cancerchildren under fivedeveloping countriesfuture strategiesinfectionsmalnutrition

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PMID35284454
PMCPMC8906403
OpenAlexW4213447507

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