Browse the latest research summaries in the field of nutrition & dietetics for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Spine Surg Relat Res, 2023 • July 1, 2023
This retrospective cohort study examined the nutritional time course in individuals with acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury (CSCI). The study found that individuals with more severe paralysis...
KEY FINDING: Individuals with severe paralysis (AIS A, B, or C) were significantly more undernourished than those with mild paresis (AIS D) three months after the injury.
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2023 • May 1, 2023
This qualitative study investigates informal caregivers’ perceptions of facilitators for successful weight management in people with SCI. The study identifies key themes related to healthy eating, exe...
KEY FINDING: Healthy eating is facilitated by factors like healthy food content (vegetables, fruits, lean protein), self-control, self-management in eating habits, and a pre-injury lifestyle that incorporated healthy eating.
Br J Nutr, 2024 • February 14, 2024
This study compared different methods of estimating energy needs and protein intake in people with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). The study found that a SCI-specific method for estimating energy ne...
KEY FINDING: The SCI-specific method for EER had the best agreement with the EEI and did not significantly overestimate it.
Food & Nutrition Research, 2024 • March 25, 2024
This study assessed malnutrition in SCI patients using GLIM criteria, finding a high prevalence of malnutrition. The MUST screening tool showed moderate agreement but failed to identify all malnourish...
KEY FINDING: 62% of subacute SCI patients were malnourished according to the GLIM criteria.
J Clin Med Res, 2024 • April 30, 2024
Patients with SCI face a significant risk of malnutrition, necessitating adequate monitoring of their nutritional status over time and consideration of TDEE changes across different disease phases. Fu...
KEY FINDING: Patients with acute SCI typically exhibit an energy expenditure up to 54% lower than those without.
Scientific Reports, 2024 • June 5, 2024
This study investigated the effects of nutritional factors on the occurrence of pneumonia after cervical spinal cord injury (CSCI). The results showed that low nutritional status, severe paralysis, an...
KEY FINDING: Low nutritional status, indicated by a PNI ≤ 38.7, was a significant risk factor for pneumonia after CSCI (OR 3.35; 95% CI 1.19–9.39).
Physiological Reports, 2024 • May 20, 2024
This study validated existing BMR prediction equations in individuals with SCI, focusing on innervated and denervated subgroups, and examined differences between predicted and measured BMR in females ...
KEY FINDING: SCI-specific equations by Chun et al., Nightingale & Gorgey, and AB-specific FFM equations accurately predicted BMR for innervated males.
Turk J Phys Med Rehab, 2024 • December 19, 2023
The study compared serum adiponectin concentration in SCI patients and healthy subjects, and the correlation between adiponectin concentration and healthy nutrition parameters. SCI patients had higher...
KEY FINDING: SCI patients had significantly higher serum adiponectin concentrations than the control group.
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2024 • September 12, 2024
This study demonstrated that every-other-day fasting (EODF), as a simple and safe dietary intervention, can effectively control both weight and food intake in spinal cord injury (SCI) rats. Crucially,...
KEY FINDING: EODF significantly enhanced the recovery of motor function and reduced pathological damage in SCI rats while controlling weight gain.
Physiological Reports, 2024 • September 20, 2024
The study demonstrated that home-based NMES-RT is a feasible and efficacious method for increasing thigh and leg lean mass in persons with SCI, and that the increase in thigh lean mass is further enha...
KEY FINDING: Thigh lean mass increased to a greater extent after NMES with protein supplementation (NMES+PRO) compared to NMES alone.