Long‐term effects of an oral elemental nutritional supplement on post‐gastrectomy body weight loss in gastric cancer patients (KSES002)

Abstract Aim The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of short‐term nutritional intervention with an oral elemental diet (ED; Elental; EA Pharma Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan) at 300 kcal/day for 6‐8 weeks in the early post‐gastrectomy period on postoperative long‐term body weight loss (BWL). Metho...

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Main Authors: Yutaka Kimura, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Kentaro Kishi, Kentaro Inoue, Jin Matsuyama, Yusuke Akamaru, Shigeyuki Tamura, Junji Kawada, Tomono Kawase, Ryohei Kawabata, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Hitoshi Kanno, Takeshi Yamada, Toshio Shimokawa, Hiroshi Imamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-11-01
Series:Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ags3.12290