Abstract

ROMERO SANQUIZ, Gisela; ANDERSON VASQUEZ, Hazel Ester; ALTAMAR, Dayana  and  ESPINA TABORDA, Ana Francis. Evaluación global subjetiva y antropométrica para el diagnóstico nutricional de pacientes con enfermedad hepática crónica. Gen [online]. 2009, vol.63, n.2, pp.115-118. ISSN 0016-3503.

Chronic liver disease is a common diagnosis and the nutritional diagnosis is very useful in influencing the natural history of the disease, that´s why this study objective was to compare the Subjective Global Assessment with the Anthropometric assessment for the nutritional diagnosis of patients with chronic liver disease. We assessed 30 individuals (11 women and 19 men) with chronic liver disease (EHC) CHILD A. Both methods were applied by different evaluators in accordance with established standards. It applied the Pearson correlation coefficient, through the program SPSS 12 (P> 0.05). In the anthropometrical assessment nutritional diagnosis a total of 22 individuals (73.3%) were normal, overweight and obesity, and 8 individuals (26.7%) with protein calorie malnutrition, while the 22 individuals subjective global assessment ( 73.3%) were well nourished, 8 (26.7%) moderately malnourished or at risk of malnutrition (r = 0775); was concluded that both the VGS as Anthropometrics are applicable to measure risk of malnutrition, but the VGS is not applicable to measure Malnutrition excess into the nutritional assessment in the ambulatory patient with chronic liver disease.

Keywords : Nutritional Diagnosis; Anthropometric Assessment; Subjective Global Assessment; chronic liver disease.