Dietary Nutrition for Neurological Disease Therapy: Current Status and Future Directions
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Epidemiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2023) | Viewed by 11832
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neurologist; physician nutrition specialist—neurodegenerative disorders; malnutrition in neurology
Interests: internist; intensivist; physician nutrition specialist—disease-related malnutrition; nutrition support in critically ill; home enteral and parenteral nutrition
Interests: gastroenterologist; gut microbiota; physician nutrition specialist—metabolic ICU; enteral and parenteral nutrition, including HPN and HEN; malnutrition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutritional disorders occur in neurological patients for a variety of reasons. Patients with stroke are particularly at risk of acute malnutrition and dysphagia, while those with neurodegenerative diseases are also at risk of chronic malnutrition and swallowing disturbances. All these patients may have a range of movement, behavioral, and cognitive impairments. These combined deficits make it difficult or even impossible to prepare and consume food independently. They also increase the body's energy requirements, potentiate the loss of functional muscle mass, and lead to economic and social insecurity. Neurogenic dysphagia, including associated respiratory and nutritional disorders such as aspiration, suffocation, pneumonia, malnutrition, and dehydration, threaten patient outcomes. Low body-mass index, non-volitional weight-loss and sarcopenia at the onset of neurodegenerative diseases are considered negative prognostic markers. Early nutritional, physiotherapeutic, and psychotherapeutic interventions, which require interdisciplinary cooperation, reduce the incidence of complications and improve patients’ quality of life.
Dr. Jiří Klempíř
Dr. František Novák
Dr. Pavel Kohout
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- malnutrition in neurology
- dysphagia
- stroke
- epilepsy
- neurodegenerative disorders
- dementia
- percutaneous gastrostomy
- sarcopenia
- spinal cord injury
