CONCORDANCE BETWEEN EQUATIONS FOR BODY WEIGHT ESTIMATION AND THEIR USE IN DETERMINING BODY MASS INDEX IN HOSPITALIZED MEN AND WOMEN

• Main Authors: Lais Pessanha Leal (Author), Marina Schmidt Mognhol (Author), Naira Marceli Fraga Silva (Author), Glenda Blaser Petarli (Author), Patrícia Moraes Ferreira Nunes (Author), Valdete Regina Guandalini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Hospitalized patients require alternative nutritional assessment methods. Objective: To evaluate the concordance between predictive equations for body weight estimation and their use in determining body mass index in hospitalized men and women. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study...