| Abstrakt: |
A recent study conducted at Federal University Pernambuco in Brazil compared the frequency of underweight and obesity among previously hospitalized older adults and analyzed their association with malnutrition, sarcopenia, frailty, inflammatory markers, and adverse outcomes. The study found that underweight individuals had a higher risk of weaker immune response, worse inflammatory profile, higher nutritional risk, higher frequency of sarcopenia and malnutrition, longer hospital stay, and a higher incidence of mortality compared to those with obesity. Being underweight was independently associated with higher mortality rates. The study concluded that the underweight phenotype represented a worst-case scenario in hospitalized older patients. [Extracted from the article] |
