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The objective is to evaluate the effect of no-commercial enteral diet for patients in home nutritional therapy in anthropometric and biochemical indices comparing to patients using commercial enteral diets.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Dietary therapy Standardized diet | Experimental | The study was constituted by sixty-six patients, thirty-three in each group. Patients on not industrialized enteral diet (standardized diet group) entered at random in the study and were matched by gender, age, socioeconomic status and medical diagnosis to patients using commercial diet (commercial group). The evaluation consisted of anthropometric measures of weight, height, arm circumference, triceps skin fold and biochemical Ãndices at baseline and at the end of the intervention. |
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| Dietary therapy Commercial diet group | No Intervention | The study was constituted by sixty-six patients, thirty-three in each group. Patients on not industrialized enteral diet (standardized diet group) entered at random in the study and were matched by gender, age, socioeconomic status and medical diagnosis to patients using commercial diet (commercial group). The evaluation consisted of anthropometric measures of weight, height, arm circumference, triceps skin fold and biochemical Ãndices at baseline and at the end of the intervention. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Dietary therapy | Dietary Supplement | A enteral diet formulation was developed to meet dietary requirements of adult patients. The formulation was standarized in household measures so that caregivers would prepare it and delivered it at the patients' home. Anthropometric measurements and blood samples were taken at baseline and at the end of the intervention which lasted four months. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Recovery of malnourished patients (weight, height, arm circumference) | weight, height, arm circumference | Two years |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Tania Morais, PhD | Federal of University of Sao Paulo | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Federal University of Sao Paulo | São Paulo | São Paulo | Brazil |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 19454554 | Background | Santos VF, Morais TB. Nutritional quality and osmolality of home-made enteral diets, and follow-up of growth of severely disabled children receiving home enteral nutrition therapy. J Trop Pediatr. 2010 Apr;56(2):127-8. doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmp033. Epub 2009 May 19. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D044342 | Malnutrition |
| ID | Term |
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| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
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| ID | Term |
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| D004035 | Diet Therapy |
| ID | Term |
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| D044623 | Nutrition Therapy |
| D013812 | Therapeutics |
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