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The effect of standardized nutritional intervention on the body composition of 646 patients with overweight/obesity

  

  1. 1.Department of Nutrition, Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang 050051, China; 2.The Second Department
    of Neurology, Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang 050051, China; 3.Department of Infection Control,
    Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang 050051, China;4. Department of Pharmacy, Hebei General
    Hospital, Shijiazhuang 050051,China; 5.Department of Neurology, the People′s
    Hospital of Zunhua, Hebei Province, Zunhua 064200, China
  • Online:2018-07-25 Published:2018-07-04

Abstract: [Abstract] Objective〖HTSS〗〓To study the effect of standardized nutritional intervention on the body composition of 646 patients with overweight/obesity.
〖HTH〗〖WTHZ〗Methods〖HTSS〗〓Retrospective study of 646 cases with overweight/obesity patients who were visiting the weight loss clinic of Hebei General Hospital nutrition department, 190 were male and 456 were female who all received standardized nutritional intervention. A month later, using the InBody 720 body composition analyzer to measure the change of body composition, including the obesity related indexes: body weight, body mass index(BMI), body fat, waistline, visceral fat area(VFA) and the lean body mass related indexes: skeletal muscle, protein, mineral salts, basal metabolism, etc.
〖HTH〗〖WTHZ〗Results〖HTSS〗〓A total of 646 overweight/obesity patients were in a monthstandardized nutritional intervention, the obesity related indexes: body weight, BMI, body fat, waistline and VFA were decreased after the intervention, the difference was statistically significant(P<005).
〖HTH〗〖WTHZ〗Conclusion〖HTSS〗〓The standardized nutritional interventions can effectively improve the body composition of the overweight/obese patients, and then improve the health of the patients, which will provide a theoretical basis for further establishing the workflow of standardized medical nutrition treatment for weight loss management.

Key words: overweight, nutritional support, body composition