Originally published by our sister publication Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News
Patients who are experiencing malnutrition are not always underweight.
Bias surrounds the idea that patients with obesity cannot possibly be malnourished, according to Stacy Pelekhaty, MS, RDN, LDN, a senior clinical nutrition specialist in the Department of Clinical Nutrition at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, in Baltimore. “Because they may not be