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. 2015 Apr 16;40(3):319–325. doi: 10.1177/0148607115581373

Table 1.

Prevalence of Malnutrition in Latin America.

Study Population Prevalence of Malnutrition
Waitzberg et al (2001)15 Cross-sectional, multicenter study of adult patients in Brazilian hospitals in the public healthcare system, n = 4000 48.1% by SGA
Correia and Campos (2003)3 Cross-sectional, multicenter study of adult patients in hospitals of 13 Latin American countries, n = 9348 50.2% by SGA
Wyszynski et al (2003)8 Study of adult patients in 38 hospitals of Argentina, n = 1000 47% by SGA
Baccaro and Sanchez (2009)13 Study of adult male patients in the internal medicine service of an Argentina hospital, n = 152 48.7% by SGA
Lara-Pulido and Guevara-Cruz (2012)17 Patients ≥65 years of age hospitalized in Mexico, n = 769 53.6% by MNA-SF
Veramendi-Espinoza et al (2013)14 Cross-sectional study of adult patients in surgery and medicine wards of a Peruvian general hospital, n = 211 46.9%
Gallegos Espinosa et al (2014)16 Cross-sectional, multicenter study of adult patients in hospitals of Ecuador, n = 5355 37.1% by SGA

MNA-SF, Mini Nutritional Assessment–short form, specifically used to detect nutrition status of people older than 65 years29; SGA, Subjective Global Assessment for adult populations.28