Search for dissertations about: "nutrition critical ill"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words nutrition critical ill.
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1. Energy expenditure and substrate utilization during critical illness
Abstract : Background: Critical illness leads to major alterations in metabolism. The net result is a state where catabolism predominates over anabolism. The associated loss of lean body mass is significant and potentially harmful. It is commonly held that providing calories and protein from nutrition may attenuate this response. READ MORE
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2. Anabolic response to amino acid supplementation in critical illness
Abstract : Background: Critically ill patients suffer from protein catabolism with losses of skeletal muscle and whole-body proteins associated with morbidity and mortality. Catabolism is difficult to overcome, but nutritional supplementation with enteral protein or parenteral amino acids may limit protein losses. READ MORE
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3. Nutritional intakes over time and perioperative nutrition in extremely preterm infants
Abstract : Background: Despite improvements in nutrition practice during the last decades, problems still exist in meeting estimated nutritional needs, especially for extremely preterm (EPT) infants. Today, it is still not known how optimal nutrition and growth will hold in the future. READ MORE
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4. Muscle protein synthesis : effects of metabolic stress and feeding
Abstract : Surgical trauma and critical illness are pathophysiological conditions where the metabolic stress leads to an imbalance between protein synthesis and protein breakdown, resulting in a net loss of body proteins. A major part of the protein losses comes from skeletal muscle. Muscle depletion is associated with a high morbidity and mortality. READ MORE
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5. Ancestral influences on health of grandchildren
Abstract : The late effects in adulthood of nutrition during adolescence, childhood, infancy, and the fetal and embryonic stages of development have attracted much attention in research, but less so the time of development of the genome. The issue of fetal origins of adult disease has particularly attracted interest. READ MORE
