Table 5 The number of meals in cancer patients
From: The clinical picture of cachexia: a mosaic of different parameters (experience of 503 patients)
Cachexia | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
no | yes | ||||
number | % | number | % | ||
Calories intake/day | <500 kcal/d | 1 | 0,3% | 0 | 0,0% |
500 – 1000 kcal/d | 6 | 1,8% | 9 | 8,0% | |
1000 – 1500 kcal/d | 54 | 16,3% | 21 | 18,8% | |
1500 – 2000 kcal/d | 203 | 61,1% | 55 | 49,1% | |
2000 – 2500 kcal/d | 64 | 19,3% | 23 | 20,5% | |
>2500 kcal/d | 4 | 1,2% | 4 | 3,6% | |
Number of meals/day | <3 | 21 | 6,0% | 7 | 5,7% |
3 – 5 | 290 | 82,6% | 75 | 61,0% | |
>5 | 34 | 9,7% | 37 | 30,1% | |
4 | 3 | 0,9% | 0 | 0,0% | |
5 | 3 | 0,9% | 4 | 3,3% | |
Additional nutrition | no | 348 | 96,1% | 62 | 48,1% |
yes | 13 | 3,6% | 63 | 48,8% | |