Nutritional Assessment - Risk Factors
NICE guidelines
www.nice.org.uk/cg032
(2006)
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Fragile skin
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Poor wound healing
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Apathy
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Wasted muscles
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Poor appetite
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Altered taste sensation
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Impaired swallowing
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Altered bowel habit
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Loose fitting clothes
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Prolonged illness:
chronic infection,
chest disease,
cardiac failure,
cancer etc.