Nutritional risk screening of patients scheduled for rehabilitation after treatment for ischemic or valvular heart disease

摘要

Although cardiovascular diseases represent an impressive burden on global health as they result in increased morbidity, life-long medical care and increased mortality, yet there is an overall paucity of studies assessing prevalence, severity and impact of malnutrition on cardiovascular patients' outcome. This is particularly true for patients undergoing invasive treatments that may impair nutritional status. For these reasons, we recently started to screen nutritional risk in patients scheduled for cardiovascular rehabilitation following treatment for ischemic or valvular heart disease using the NRS-2002 tool. In particular, we were interested in assessing the prevalence of increased nutritional risk and its relationship with previous cardiovascular treatment, as well as standard anthropometries.