SynthesisEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2020
Effects of nutritional support on the clinical outcomes of well-nourished patients with cancer: a meta-analysis.
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- Effect of immunonutrition on surgery outcomes in cancer patients: evidence from an umbrella review on interventional and observational meta-analyses.BMC cancer · 2026Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Dietary Care on Nausea and Vomiting in Oncology Chemotherapy Patients.Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022Pooled it
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- ChatGPT in Oncology Diagnosis and Treatment: Applications, Legal and Ethical Challenges.Current oncology reports · 2025Review
- Serum PM20D1 levels are associated with nutritional status and inflammatory factors in gastric cancer patients undergoing early enteral nutrition.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2025Article
- Prediction of postoperative infectious complications in elderly patients with colorectal cancer: a study based on improved machine learning.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2024Article
- Evaluating the effect of food components on the digestion of dietary nucleic acids in human gastric juice in vitro.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
- The Glasgow Prognostic Score Before Curative Resection May Predict Postoperative Complications in Patients with Gastric Cancer.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2022Article
- Immunonutrition in ovarian cancer: clinical and immunological impact?Journal of gynecologic oncology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The effects of nutritional support on well-nourished patients have been investigated, but the results were inconsistent among different articles. We performed the meta-analysis to examine the existing evidence. We systematically retrieved articles from PubMed, Web of Science and the Cochrane Library to identify the evidence of nutritional support for well-nourished patients. Methodological quality assessment was assessed based on the Cochrane Handbook and GRADE. Nine randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and one non-RCT with 1400 participants were included in this meta-analysis. Nutritional support, particularly immunonutrition, was associated with a significant reduction in postoperative infectious complications (OR = 0.74, 95% CI: 0.57-0.96), and a decreasing trends in morbidity and the length of the hospital stay (LOS) were observed. However, the mortality rates were comparable between two groups. The quality of evidence was moderate to high. Nutritional support, particularly immunonutrition supplementation, is likely to reduce infectious complications, morbidity and LOS without influencing mortality and may be a safe and preferred choice for well-nourished patients undergoing surgery for cancer. However, additional RCTs are warranted to determine the effects of nutritional support on well-nourished patients.
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