Objective To detect nutritional problems in liver cirrhosis patients early through nutritional risk screening, and to provide them with individual dietary intervention for improving their malnutrition and avoiding or reducing diet- related complications.Methods The nutritional risk of liver cirrhosis patients was assessed according to the NRS 2002 standard.A total of 134 patients admitted to our hospital from October 2011 to October 2013 were randomly assigned to intervention group (66 cases) and control group (68 cases) .Their anthropometric parameters, NRS 2002 scores, blood test results, length of hospital stay, and times of hospitalization within six months were recorded and analyzed.A Student's t- test was used to analyze continuous data in normal distribution, and the rank sum test for continuous data in non-normal distribution;the chi- square test was used to analyze categorical data.Results Patients in control group showed significant changes in body mass index (BMI) , lean muscle mass, bone mass, serum total protein, and albumin one week after admission (P < 0.05 for all) .Patients in intervention group showed significant changes in body mass, BMI, body moisture rate, bone mass, hemoglobin, prealbumin, serum albumin, and NRS 2002 score one week after admission (P < 0.05 for all) .There were significant differences between the two groups in hemoglobin, prealbumin, and NRS 2002 score one week after admission and times of hospitalization within six months (P < 0.05 for all) .Conclusions Individual dietary intervention has both short- term effect and long- term effect.Liver cirrhosis patients with nutritional risk need individual dietary intervention.
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