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    Correlation between nutritional status and hospital stay in adult hospitalized patients in the medicine ward of a national hospital in Lima during the year 2017
    (Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2018-12-07) Palomino Hermoza, Fortunato Saturnino; Molina Tomasto, Ruth Ofelia; León Cáceres, Johanna del Carmen
    Methods: A cross-sectional study of 80 patients from the Medicine service was conducted. Anthropometric, biochemical, and clinical diagnostic variables were used, which were related to hospital stay in groups of patients aged over and under 60 years. Results: The hospitalization time was greater in the group of patients over 60 years. All anthropometric and biochemical measures showed lower values in the group over 60 years. The hospitalization days were higher for cardiovascular diseases. Metabolic diseases had the highest weight, and renal diseases had the lowest weight.