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UnknownNCT03398343
Nutritional Therapy on Underweight Critically Ill Patients: an Observational Study
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 450 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Critically ill patients with body mass index (BMI) inferior to 20 kg/m2 have worse outcomes compared to normal and overweight patients. The impact nutrition therapy in this population is not yet stablished. There is a concern that too low caloric intake might worse their malnutrition; on the other hand, overfeeding is always a risk with serious consequences. The hypothesis of this study is that nutritional support, especially caloric and protein intake, can influence the outcome of underweight critically ill patients.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2018-03-01
- Completion
- 2018-12-01
- First posted
- 2018-01-12
- Last updated
- 2018-01-12
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Brazil
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03398343. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.