Chronic infectious diseases like tuberculosis are causes of metabolic disturbances, that it interfere in the use and mobilization of corporeal nutrients, affecting the nutritional condition. The immunological function of undernourished sick is altered, which probably incurs in the increased incidence of infectious complications. The research was made to diagnose the nutritional state of patients that were recently - interned with tuberculosis at University Hospital João de Barros Barreto, applying the subjective global assessment technique, verifying the agreement with an objective method, Corporeal Mass Index. It was used the inductive method, that it was descriptive and analytical-descriptive, traverse, having as a reference population the patients that was enrolled on tuberculosis patients group and directed for hospitalization, excluding the patients with tuberculous meningitis. The controlled variables were weight, heigth, sex, forms of tuberculosis, weight alterations, subcutaneous fat, muscle mass, the ingesta of nutrients and the func1ional capacity; presence of gastrointestinal symptoms, signs of edema and ascites. The observed nutritional profile was 77,8% of undernourished, and of these 83,78% moderate and 16,22% serious, with a medium CMI of 18,66 ± 3,86 Kg/m². Most of patients informed weight loss in the last six months before the internment inside of 5% to 10% of his/her habitual weight; 73,82% informed modification on the ingesta of nutrients for smaller amounts and presence of gastrointestinal symptoms in 64,58% of them; being anorexia the most frequent symptom, following by nauseas, vomits and diarrhea; the loss of the functional capacity was a reality in 100% (nurtured and undernourished). In the physical exam it was possible to notice that in 79,16% presented loss of subcutaneous fat and muscular mass simultaneously jointly and no one of the cases presented edema and ascites. The lung tuberculosis was the more incident, being found three cases of ganglial tuberculosis and one with bone tuberculosis associated with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The CMI in relation to SGA presented a coefficient of Kappa same to 0,47, sensitive validity of 67% and specificity of 100%. SGA was shown as a good applicability technique, demonstrating in practice relatives data, not only of the nutritional state but also in the way of the individuals' life, giving relevant subsidies for the therapeutics into the hospital. The nutritional diagnosis showed a high prevalence so much of undernourished for the subjective method as for the objective and that the concern with the precocious nutritional condition facilitates to an appropriate nutritional intervention. The data suggest to be important the continuity of the study evaluating the nutritional situation to the internment and periodic subsidizing the attendance rendered by the team of health, for the improvement of the health condition in this group of sick.
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