When hospitalised with chronic heart failure, survival could come down to the hospital food

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Professional nutrition support for patients hospitalised with chronic heart failure could be the difference between survival and death, according to a Swiss study. Of 645 patients hospitalised in Switzerland with chronic heart failure who were at risk of malnutrition, half were given individualised nutritional support, while the other half were given regular hospital food options. After 30 days, about one in 12 patients given nutritional support had died, compared to just under one in seven for those without the support. After 180 days, just over one in four patients who had been given the nutritional support had died, and just under one in three patients without the support had died. The researchers found those most at risk of malnutrition benefitted the most from intervention.

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Organisation/s: Kantonsspital Aarau, Switzerland

Funder: The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (PP00P3_150531) and the Research Council of the Kantonsspital Aarau (1410.000.058 and 1410.000.044) provided funding for the trial. The funders had no role in data collection, analysis, interpretation, writing of the manuscript and the decision to submit.

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