Nina Braun

TL;DR: These findings strongly support the concept of systematically screening medical inpatients on hospital admission regarding nutritional risk, independent of their medical condition, followed by a nutritional assessment and introduction of individualised nutritional support in patients at risk.

TL;DR: Investigating the association of malnutrition with biomarkers characteristic of different pathophysiological states to better understand the underlying etiological mechanisms suggested that acute malnutrition rather than chronic malnutrition was associated with elevated biomarker levels.

TL;DR: Over a 6-y long-term follow-up, obesity is found to be associated with lower all-cause mortality in CAP patients, confirming the obesity paradox in this population, however, differences in inflammatory pathways did not explain these findings.

TL;DR: Current concepts regarding the underlying pathophysiology and possible explanation for the obesity paradox are summarized, and open questions such as whether age is an effect modifier on the relationship of obesity and mortality are discussed.

TL;DR: This research presents a novel probabilistic procedure called “spot-spot analysis” that allows for real-time analysis of the response of the immune system to foreign substance abuse.