Nutritional Risk Screening for Stroke Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
Abstract：Objective To investigate the incidence of nutritional risk for stroke patients with diabetes mellitus. Methods All the stroke patients with diabetes mellitus in a neurologic department were investigated with Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS2002). Results The inci-dences of undernutrition and nutritional risk were 11.3% (42/372) and 35.8% (133/372), respectively. The incidence of nutritional risk was more in the patients aged over 60 years than in the patients below 60 years (P=0.001). The incidence of both undernutrition and nutritional risk was more in the patients with stroke relapsing than those of the initial stroke (P<0.001). Conclusion The stroke patients with diabetes mellitus are in the risk of undernutrition and nutritional risk, especially those over the age of 60 years and relapsed stroke.
Keywords：nutritional riskmalnutritionstrokediabetes mellitusNutritional Risk Screening
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 866-868 )