Clinical Implications of Undernutrition in Childhood Cancer: A Single Centre Experience from a Developing Country

Autor:	Yogesh Kumar, Julius Xavier Scott, Latha M Sneha, Lakshmanan Sakthikumar, Shobana Chandran, Lakshmipriya Soundarapandiyan
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Childhood cancer Developing country Cancer medicine.disease Single centre Malnutrition medicine Pharmacology (medical) Neurology (clinical) business Body mass index
Zdroj:	International Journal of Nutrition, Pharmacology, Neurological Diseases. 11:163
ISSN:	2231-0738
DOI:	10.4103/ijnpnd.ijnpnd_112_20
Popis:	Introduction: Coexisting malnutrition is one of the known influencing factor of the survival rates in childhood cancer. Malnutrition contributes to poor immune function, altered drug metabolism—thereby causing drug toxicities and adverse clinical outcome. This study was done to assess the impact of undernutrition during treatment for childhood cancer, among the children diagnosed at our center. Methods: All children ≤18 years diagnosed with cancer between June 2011 and June 2019 treated at our institution were included in this study. Nutrition was assessed using body mass index (BMI) Z-score and a Z-score
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