With heart failure, good nutrition could mean survival
With heart failure, good nutrition could mean survival Personalised dietary advice reduces risk of death for hospitalised patients. Credit: Justin Paget/Getty Images. A Swiss study has shown that personalised nutrition support for people hospitalised with chronic heart failure reduced their risk of dying compared to those given standard hospital food. Patients with malnutrition were most likely to benefit, which is unsurprising given it’s well established that malnutrition is associated with poorer patient outcomes – including people with heart failure. The study randomised more than 600 ...
Source: cosmosmagazine.com