What is it about?

Pre-Liver Transplant patients because of disease condition suffer from lower quality of life standards than a normal person and malnutrition is highly prevalent in these patients. The present provides the relation between malnutrition and Quality of life by showing malnourished patients have lower Quality of Life than normal patients.

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Why is it important?

studying the relation of malnutrition and quality of life of pre-liver transplant patients is crucial because it provides us a platform to plan international studies focusing on improvement of malnutrition to bring positive affect on quality of life of these patients

Perspectives

the main motive to undertake the following study was to provoke more focus on nutrition intervention among pre-liver transplant patients as malnutrition deteriorates the quality of life of these patients

Ms Neha Bakshi
Delhi University

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This page is a summary of: Effect of malnutrition on health related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients awaiting liver transplantation, Indian Journal of Transplantation, April 2015, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijt.2015.09.039.
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