Nutritional intervention versus standard nutritional advice in malnourished chronic obstructieve pulmonary disease patients
Hoekstra, J.C.; Uil, S.M.; van den Berg, J.W.K.; Elvers, J.W.H. · Aktuelle Ernährungsmedizin · 2005 · Heft 3 · S. 1 bis 1
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Aim: To compare the effects of an individual nutritional intervention and a standard nutritional advice in malnourished patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods: Thirty patients participated in this randomised, unblinded, pilot study. Patients (n=16) in the intervention group received an individual nutritional intervention which was carried out by a dietician according to a dietary protocol. Patients in the other group (n=14) received a standard nutritional advice by the pulmonologist and were prescribed 3 times daily 125ml of a nutritional oral supplement (Respifor). Besides a baselin…