Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 7 , Pages 766-771 , July 2010

Nutritional status assessed by the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) is associated with qualities of diet and life in Korean cerebral infarction patients

  • Hyun Jung Lim, Ph.D., R.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Nutrition, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
    • ,
  • Ryowon Choue, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Nutrition, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
    • Research Institute of Clinical Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +82-2-961-0769; fax: +82-2-965-8904.

Received 15 January 2009 ,Accepted 1 October 2009.

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 This work was supported by a grant from the Kyung Hee University Post-Doctoral fellowship in 2009 (KHU-20090455).

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doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.10.003

Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 7 , Pages 766-771 , July 2010

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