1. Compliance with a high-protein and energy-dense oral nutritional supplement in patients with disease-related malnutrition: a randomized open-label crossover trial
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Miguel Leon-Sanz, Francisca Linares, Montserrat Gonzalo, María José Tapia, María Maiz-Jimenez, Marta Ruiz Aguado, Luis Lizán, and Gabriel Olveira
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oral nutritional supplement ,energy density ,compliance ,cost ,nutritional status ,gastrointestinal tolerance ,Nutrition. Foods and food supply ,TX341-641 - Abstract
IntroductionPatient compliance with oral nutritional supplements (ONS) is not optimal for meeting energy and nutritional requirements in a high proportion of patients with disease-related malnutrition (DRM). Energy density or prescribed volume of ONS may impact compliance.MethodsA randomized, open-label crossover trial was conducted in outpatients with DRM to compare compliance with a high energy-dense ONS (edONS, 2.4 kcal/mL) and a reference ONS (heONS, 2.0 kcal/mL; NCT05609006). Patients were randomly assigned to two 8-week treatment sequences of four-weeks periods: edONS + heONS (sequence A) or heONS + edONS (sequence B). Patients daily reported the amount of product left over gastrointestinal tolerance and satisfaction with ONS. A non-inferiority analysis was performed to compare the compliance rate (percentage of consumed energy over the prescribed) for each period and sequence.ResultsFifty-three patients were assigned to sequence A and 50 to sequence B (55.7 ± 13.9 years, 37.0% female, 67.1% oncology patients). In sequence A, the compliance rates were 88.6% ± 14.3% vs. 84.1 ± 21.8% (p = 0.183), while in sequence B, they were 78.9% ± 23.8% vs. 84.4% ± 21.4% (p
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- 2023
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