Abstract:Background
Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are at risk of malnutrition, which is associated with considerable disease related complications. Most available screening tools for malnutrition risk such as the malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST), do not incorporate malnutrition-promoting characteristics of IBDs. Therefore, we aimed to detect disease-specific risk factors for malnutrition development in IBD, which may be incorporated in future malnutrition screening tools.… Show more
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