Relationship between Mid-Upper Arm Circumference and Body Mass Index in Inpatients

Néstor Benítez Brito, José Pablo Suárez Llanos, Manuel Fuentes Ferrer, Jose Gregorio Oliva García, Irina Delgado Brito, Francisca Pereyra-García Castro, Nieves Caracena Castellanos, Candelaria Xiomara Acevedo Rodríguez and Enrique Palacio Abizanda

PLOS ONE, 2016, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-10

Abstract: Introduction: Nutritional screening is a fundamental aspect of the initial evaluation of the hospitalised patient. Body Mass Index (BMI) in association with other parameters is a good marker of malnutrition (

Date: 2016
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