Nutrition Interventions for Liver Disease

Liver disease can have major impacts on nutrition status. Join Beth RD, LDN, CNSC, CSSD as she discusses the signs of liver disease, complications that can arise, and how to approach nutrition assessment and management. This is part 1 of a 2 part video set.

Part 2 focuses on nutrition support for liver disease with a case study and can be found here!
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Closed captions provided by Tze Xin Goh, MS, RDN

0:15 Liver functions
1:39 Acute liver disease
2:39 Chronic liver disease
4:09 Complications of liver disease
5:05 High malnutrition risk
6:06 Barriers to PO intake
7:33 Nutrition assessment
8:27 Estimating dry weight
10:44 Nutrition needs
13:45 Goals of nutrition therapy
14:52 Avoiding prolonged fasting
15:50 Vitamin considerations
16:59 Mineral considerations


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