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Nutritional disorders in patients with Huntington's disease
Procházková, Tereza ; Klempíř, Jiří (advisor) ; Kosheleva, Svetlana (referee)
OF THE BACHELOR THESIS This thesis deals with the issue of nutritional disorders in Huntington's disease. Huntington's disease is an incurable, neurodegenerative, autosomal dominant inherited disease. The prevalence of Huntington's disease in Western society is 10.6-13.7 / 100,000 individuals. The disease is manifested by disorders of free motor control, speech, swallowing, postural instability, cognitive deterioration and various behavioral changes. An integral part of the disease is unwanted weight loss. In the various stages of the disease, the causes of the development of nutritional disorders may differ and combine with each other. In the theoretical part, the chapters are devoted to the etiology and pathogenesis, pathology, clinical manifestations, forms and stages of the disease, nutritional disorders and their classification, methods of nutritional status examination and specific causes of nutritional disorders that occur in each stage of the disease. A special chapter focuses on the classification of nutritional disorders according to the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, which was applied in the research. The practical part aims to examine the nutritional status and evaluate eating habits in a group of patients with Huntington's disease through clinical and...
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