12 Sep 2018 --- Evidence of malnutrition can be seen broadly around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese and 462 million adults are currently underweight. Despite serious concerns associated with malnutrition’s adverse outcomes and cost, no single existing approach to malnutrition diagnosis has achieved broad global acceptance, until now. Members of the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) have outlined five criteria for malnutrition, in a consensus report, which has been published in the latest issue of both the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition.
