Malnutrition screening in inflammatory bowel diseasse patients

Introduction: According to current guideline, all IBD patients should be screened regularly for malnutrition with a validated tool (focusing on BMI, weight loss and food intake). In a previous screening study conducted in hospitalized patients (n = 1252) malnutrition was observed up to 20% using the body mass index (BMI) calculation, while it was high as 40% according to the validated malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST). We hypnotized that even MUST is not the sufficient method to evaluate the risk of malnutrition of an IBD patient. Patients and methods: 173 consecutive IBD (126 with Crohn's disease – C…