Protein Intake Plus Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation on Muscle Mass in Hospitalized Elderly

Effects of Protein Intake Plus Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation on Muscle Mass in Hospitalized Elderly: a Randomized Controlled Clinical Study

This study aims to investigate the effects of supplementation of protein plus sessions of electrostimulation on muscle mass, length of hospital stay, readmission and mortality of hospitalized elderly.

Hospitalized elderly people show malnutrition, physical inactivity, and pronounced systemic inflammation which may be exacerbated the catabolic state and promote drastic muscle wasting during the hospitalization and, thus increasing the length of stay, morbidity, and mortality. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of supplementation of protein plus sessions of electrostimulation on muscle mass, length of hospital stay, readmission, and mortality of hospitalized elderly.

Inclusion Criteria:

• both sex;
• 65 years and older;
• hospital stay less than 48 hours;

Exclusion Criteria:

• cancer in the last 5 years;
• delirium;
• cognitive deficit that impossibility the patient to read and sign the informed consent form;
• neurological disease;
• neurodegenerative muscular disease;
• impossibility to receive the intervention.