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The European Food Safety Authority recently estimated that the Population Reference Intake for adults of all ages was 0.83 g protein/kg body weight per day. The Reference Nutrient Intake (RNI) in the UK for protein in the healthy adult (including older people) population is 0.75g/kg body weight. Requirements are determined by measurement of the...

Malnutrition and sarcopenia are conditions that are common and overlapping in older adults. Both conditions are strongly influenced by nutrition, where an inadequate nutrient intake is a contributing factor to weight loss and consequently functional impairment.

As the first update of 2018, the Glisten group wants to highlight the importance of sarcopenia in the hospital. Two recent studies, the result of research by the GLISTEN group, have shown how the problem of sarcopenia is significant in the hospital, both in terms of prevalence at the time of admission, and incidence during the days of...

Advancing age is linked with important changes in body composition, the most remarkable of which, sarcopenia, is a major cause of physical function decay, disability, and mortality. After the age of 35 years, a healthy subject loses muscle mass at a rate of 1% to 2% per year in combi- nation with a 1.5% annual decline in strength, which...

Readmission and mortality in malnourished, older, hospitalized adults treated with a specialized oral nutritional supplement: A randomized clinical trial Nicolaas E. Deutz et al. on behalf of the NOURISH Study Group (Riammissione e mortalità in pazienti anziani malnutriti e ricoverati trattati con un supplemento nutrizionale orale specifico: uno...