Resumen de Oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status among inpatients admitted in a tertiary hospital

• Introduction:

  Malnutrition is very common in hospitals and inpatients with prescription of oral nutritional supplementation have improvement of the nutritional status.

  Objectives:

  To detect the total acceptance rate and a possible association between oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status.

  Methods:

  A cross-sectional study was carried out among 398 inpatients. Fifteen types of supplements were analyzed and nutritional status was detected by Subjective Global Assessment (SGA). Rest-ingestion index (RI) was obtained and Modified Poisson�s regression was used to detect associations between nutritional status and intake of nutritional supplements.

  Results:

  The prevalence of malnutrition was 43.7% and overall acceptance of supplements was around 75%. Industrialized supplements have better acceptance among well-nourished inpatients and patients who ate less than 80% of the supplement offered (industrialized or homemade) had higher risk for malnutrition (48%).

  Conclusion:

  There was an association between oral nutritional supplements intake and nutritional status, despite the good acceptance rate.