ReviewNutrients2023
Unlocking the Power of Late-Evening Snacks: Practical Ready-to-Prescribe Chart Menu for Patients with Cirrhosis.
Review in Nutrients, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06278701 (Effects of Late-evening Snacks on Nutritional Status and Metabolic Pattern of Patients With Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Hepatectomy), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Effects of Late-evening Snacks on Nutritional Status and Metabolic Pattern of Patients With Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Hepatectomy
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Social Determinants Are Important Barriers to Completion of the Liver Transplant Pathway and Are Associated with Waitlisting and Mortality in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2026Article
- Comprehensive nutritional management incorporating home-based dietary consultation improves hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhotic patients: a retrospective cohort study.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Small bites, big impact: The importance of evening snacks in patients with advanced chronic liver disease.World journal of hepatology · 2025Article
- The social and psychological impact of hepatic encephalopathy.Metabolic brain disease · 2024Review
- Optimizing nutrition in hepatic cirrhosis: A comprehensive assessment and care approach.World journal of gastroenterology · 2024Review
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- Pathophysiological-Based Nutritional Interventions in Cirrhotic Patients with Sarcopenic Obesity: A State-of-the-Art Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2024Review
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Abstract
The efficacy of the late-evening snack (LES) has been extensively studied due to the impact of the longest intermeal duration occurring at night in patients with cirrhosis. While actual clinical guidelines on nutrition in chronic liver disease recommend an LES, no specific nutritional compositions have been reported by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN). Late-evening snacks vary greatly among studies, including natural foods and/or nutritional supplements, yet oral supplements still need to fully meet the LES's nutritional composition. In addition, many hepatologists need to gain experience in nutritional approaches and have access to registered dieticians who can help them manage patients with liver disease. Therefore, this review study aims to summarise evidence regarding using LESs and the mechanisms behind long starvation in patients with cirrhosis. It also provides a practical nutritional guide with several LES options based on common natural foods tailored to special patients' nutritional requirements and geographical backgrounds. In preventing accelerated starvation and related protein malnutrition and sarcopenia in patients with cirrhosis, the nutritional composition of LESs is essential. The proper and straightforward application of the LES's rational nutrition is an advantage to cirrhotic patients and should be carried out by healthcare professionals to enhance the overall liver function and nutritional status of patients with cirrhosis.
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