Description
Book SynopsisAn easy-to-use book with questions on clinical nutrition clearly posed and answers based on real-life studies, this is a ready reference for the busy healthcare professional. Clinical Nutrition in Practice opens with introductory chapters on the basis of healthy nutrition, malnutrition and nutritional assessment.
Trade Review“This is an excellent clinical guide to nutrition that I recommend to all nurses, midwives, nursing and medical students and dieticians.” (Cancer Nursing Practice, 1 April 2012)
"This is an excellent clinical guide to nutrition that I recommend to all nurses, midwives, nursing and medical students and dieticians." (Nursing Standard, 11 January 2012)
Table of ContentsPreface vii
1 Principles of Healthy Nutrition 1
Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos, Meropi Kontogianni and Evangelia Manglara
2 Nutritional Assessment 27
Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos
3 Malnutrition 37
Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos
4 Weight Management and Eating Disorders 45
Nikolaos Katsilambros and Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos
5 Diabetes 61
Nikolaos Katsilambros and Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos
6 Hypertension and Cardiovascular Diseases 79
Meropi Kontogianni
7 Gastrointestinal Diseases 93
Meropi Kontogianni
8 Renal Disease 127
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia
9 Pulmonary Diseases 139
Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos, Meropi Kontogianni and Kalliopi-Anna Poulia
10 Life Expectancy 143
Evangelia Manglara
11 HIV/AIDS 147
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia
12 Metabolic Stress 155
Charilaos Dimosthenopoulos
13 Neoplastic Diseases 163
Meropi Kontogianni
14 Rheumatic Diseases 171
Meropi Kontogianni
15 Nutrition and Anaemias 181
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia
16 Neurological and Mental Disorders 187
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia
17 Enteral Nutrition 197
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia
18 Parenteral Nutrition 205
Kalliopi-Anna Poulia
19 Food Allergy 213
Meropi Kontogianni
Index 217
