Comparison of Nutritional Status with Clinical Status, Laboratory Results and NRS-2002 Score in Patients Requiring Nutritional Support

60 DO I: 10.4274/eamr.galenos.2017.02679 Eur Arch Med Res 2019; 35 (2): 60-5 Orhan Üreyen1, Yasemin Ergül Kunduracı2, Yeter Bulut2, Canan İnal2, Pınar Ortan3 1University of Health Sciences, İzmir Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Nutrition Support Unit, İzmir, Turkey 2University of Health Sciences, İzmir Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital, Nutrition Support Unit, İzmir, Turkey 3University of Health Sciences, İzmir Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital, Department of Neurology, İzmir, Turkey ORIGINAL ARTICLE Cite this article as: Üreyen O, Ergül Kunduracı Y, Bulut Y, İnal C, Ortan P. Comparison of Nutritional Status with Clinical Status, Laboratory Results and NRS-2002 Score in Patients Requiring Nutritional Support. Eur Arch Med Res 2019; 35 (2): 60-5 Presented: This study was presented in the 10th Congress of Clinical Enteral Parenteral Nutrition (KEPAN) (29 March-2 April 2017, Antalya). Address for Correspondence: Orhan Üreyen, University of Health Sciences, İzmir Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Nutrition Support Unit, İzmir, Turkey E-posta: drureyen@yahoo.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-9088 ©Copyright 2019 by the Health Sciences University, Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital European Archives of Medical Research published by Galenos Publishing House. Received: 10.06.2017 Accepted: 25.12.2017 INTRODUCTION Malnutrition is quite high (20-40%) in hospitalized patients. Its prevalence depends on the assessment of underlying nutritional difficulties and clinical evaluation parameters (1, 2). It is known that treatment is more difficult and morbidity-mortality increases in cases requiring nutritional support (3, 4). Although various assessment methods and indicators (biochemical tests and anthropometric indices) are currently used in the