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Translation of the Diabetes Nutrition Recommendations for Health Care Institutions

1997; Elsevier BV; Volume: 97; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0002-8223(97)00016-3

1878-3570

Rebecca G. Schafer, Betsy Bohannon, Marion J. Franz, Janine Freeman, Alberta Holmes, Sue McLaughlin, Linda B. Haas, Davida F. Kruger, Rodney A. Lorenz, Molly McMahon,

Diabetes Management and Research

The Nutrition Recommendations and Principles for People With Diabetes Mellitus ( (1) Franz M.J. Horton E.S. Bantle J.P. Beebe C.A. Brunzell J.D. Coulston A.M. Henry R.R. Hoogwerf B.J. Stacpoole P.W. Nutritional principles for the management of diabetes and related complications (Technical Review). Diabetes Care. 1994; 17: 490-518 Google Scholar , (2) American Diabetes AssociationNutritional recommendations and principles for individuals with diabetes mellitus (Position Statement). Diabetes Care;. 1997; 20: S15-S18 Google Scholar ) reflect current scientific nutrition and diabetes knowledge and consensus. The recommendations apply primarily to individuals receiving diabetes medical nutrition therapy on an outpatient basis and living in a home setting and not to hospitalized patients or residents of long-term-care facilities with diabetes. This population takes on added importance when one considers that adults with diabetes are hospitalized three times more often than adults without diabetes and tend to have longer hospital stays. In addition, ∼18% of all long-term-care residents have diabetes ( (3) American Diabetes Association Diabetes 1996 Vital Statistics. American Diabetes Association, Alexandria, Va1996 Google Scholar ).