West China Journal of Stomatology
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Duan Hongming, Chen Yunmei, Wu Hanjiang
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Objective:The objective of the study is to evaluate the nutritional status of patientswith oral maxillofacial cancer.Methods: The nutritional statuswas evaluated using seven easily determined variables and multi-factor nutritional indexin 50 hospitalized pa- tients with oral maxillofacial cancerfrom 1990 to 1992.Results: Fifty-six percentof patients had protein-energy malnutrition. The high incidence of protein-energy malnutrition was found in those patients without adequate dietary intake.Conclusion: Patients with oral maxillofacial cancer usually have protein-energy malnutrition. The reason is that the patients always have an inadequate dietary intake.
Key words: nutritional status assessment, protein-energy malnutrition, oral maxillofacial cancer
Duan Hongming, Chen Yunmei, Wu Hanjiang. Nutritional Status Assessment of Patients with Oral Maxillofacial Cancers[J]. West China Journal of Stomatology.
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