Maja Czerwińska Rogowska
Pomeranian Medical University, Poland
Title: Is lymphocyte, which is a cheap and popular marker, sensitive to protein content in diets?
Biography
Biography: Maja Czerwińska Rogowska
Abstract
Malnutrition is associated with worse prognosis, a higher risk of infections and complications, worse regeneration of wounds, longer hospitalization, the increase of the total costs of treatment and higher mortality rate. Therefore, early identification of patients suffering from malnutrition should be considered a priority and so should be the actions aiming at the prevention of this problem. One of the most popular markers of malnutrition is lymphocyte concentrate. It is very cheap and routinely used. The aim of the study is to investigate the influence that the protein acquired from the kitchen diet has on lymphocyte concentrate in comparison to the influence that the protein acquired from the industrial diet has on this concentrate. The study group consist of enterally fed post-stroke patients (58 people: 34 fed home-made diet and 28 fed industrial diet). Patients were fed for 14 days. In the kitchen diet group, there was 28.5 g of protein and a decrease in concentration was observed (p<0.05). In the industrial diet group, there was 53.5 g of protein and an increase in lymphocyte concentration has been demonstrated (p<0.05). Lymphocyte concentrate is sensitive on to protein content in diet and it can be used as a cheap and popular marker in malnutrition.