Barbara Neri

TL;DR: It is confirmed the necessity to routinely perform nutritional status evaluation in elderly subjects, to carry out training courses for health workers and caregivers, to implement nutritional education of the geriatric population, and to identify and reduce clinical, functional, social or economic risk factors for malnutrition.

TL;DR: The need to pay greater attention to nutritional status in elderly institutionalized subjects is confirmed, as data analysis showed a high prevalence of malnutrition especially related to advanced age, chewing, cognitive and functional impairments.

TL;DR: The aim of the study is to retrospectively verify, through a multivariate analysis, the factors able to condition mortality in long-term care, paying particular attention to the nutritional status.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how obesity might increase the risk of coronavirus disease-19 and potentially affect its prognosis once COVID-19 is diagnosed, and advocate for implementation of strategies aimed at preventing obesity in the first place, but also to minimize the metabolic anomalies that may lead to a compromized immune response and chronic low-grade systemic inflammation, especially in patients with COVID19.

TL;DR: The JaNuS test might be confidently applied in the clinical setting to determine the importance of malnutrition (including the copresence of over and undernutrition) as a risk factor for morbidity and mortality.