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Apr 2023
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Episode 63: Rates of Malnutrition in Pat...

KHALIL DIAB
About this episode

Listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Krystel Ouaijan, Senior Dietician specialized in critical illness at Saint George Hospital University Medical Centre and secretary and founding member of the Lebanese Syndicate for Dieticians and Nutritionists. In this episode, we discuss her latest research on the rates of malnutrition in Lebanon and the impact of those rates on hospital length of stay and morbidity and mortality on those patients. We also discuss the impact of the economic crisis on those rates. 

This is her latest published article: 

Ouaijan K, Hwalla N, Kandala NB, Mpinga EK. Prevalence of Malnutrition in Hospitalized Patients in Lebanon Using Nutrition Risk Screening (NRS-2002) and Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) Criteria and Its Association with Length of Stay. Healthcare (Basel). 2023;11(5):730. Published 2023 Mar 2. doi:10.3390/healthcare11050730

Stay tuned for more data that will be published soon and stay tuned for policy change proposals this data will be generating. 

You can listen to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio and Anghami. 

#Malnutrition #hospitallengthofstay #chronicdisease

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