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. 2019 Dec 13;8(12):2202. doi: 10.3390/jcm8122202

Table 1.

Clinical conditions at particular risk of developing RFS.

Clinical Conditions
- Malnourished, catabolic patients
- Geriatric patients
- Oncologic patients
- Trauma patients
- Critically ill patients
- Hunger strikers or prolonged fasting
- Short -bowel syndrome
- Bariatric surgery
- Anorexia nervosa
- Cystic fibrosis		 - Chronic wasting disease
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Chronic infectious disease
- Inflammatory bowel syndrome
- Liver cirrhosis
- Patients with dysphagia
- Patients with hemodialysis
- Patients with chemotherapy
- Patients with chronic alcoholism
- Drug dependent patients