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Trial reportClinical interventions in aging2018

Relationship between enteral nutrition and serum levels of inflammatory factors and cardiac function in elderly patients with heart failure.

Hong Zhou, HaiXin Qian

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Clinical interventions in aging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hong ZhouDepartment of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
HaiXin QianDepartment of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University · CNShanghai Jiao Tong University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo investigate enteral nutrition's effect on serum inflammatory factors and the cardiac function of malnourished elderly patients with heart failure. PATIENTS AND

methodsA total of 105 elderly patients with heart failure were randomly divided into 3 groups: Treatment Group A, Treatment Group B, and the Control Group (Group C), each group having 35 patients and being administered conventional heart failure treatment. Group A was treated with 500 mL·d

resultsAfter the treatment, the body mass index, skinfold thickness of upper arm triceps, muscle circumference of the upper arm, upper arm muscle circumference, total protein, albumin, hemoglobin, and left ventricular ejection fraction in the treatment groups all increased, with relatively obvious relief of symptoms of heart failure. The levels of B-type natriuretic peptide, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-α, and C-reactive protein all rose to different extents (

conclusionThe use of enteral nutrition in conventional treatment of elderly patients with heart failure could improve not only patients' nutritional status and cardiac function, but also their immune function, thus reducing the levels of inflammatory factors. The longer the treatment period is, the more obvious the improvement in patients' cardiac function and inflammatory factors will be observed.

Indexed as

Nutritional StatusAgedBiomarkersBody Mass IndexEnteral NutritionFemaleGeriatric AssessmentHeart FailureHumansInflammationMaleMiddle AgedTreatment OutcomeBiomarkerscardiac functionelderlyenteral nutritionheart failureinflammatory factors

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PMID29563779
PMCPMC5846300
OpenAlexW2789841939

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