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The critical illness is associated with a complex metabolic response, which includes catabolic stress and protein mass loss among other processes that are closely related with inflammation [1, 2]. At the same time, many patients suffer from nutritional deficiencies on Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission that may contribute to enhance inflammation and worsen illness severity [2, 3].

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  1. Cardiovascular Anesthesia and ICU Department, San Carlo Regional Hospital, Potenza, Italy

    Gianluca Paternoster & Giuseppina Opramolla

  2. Intensive Care Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

    Juan Carlos Lopez-Delgado

  3. Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

    Juan Carlos Lopez-Delgado

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Paternoster, G., Opramolla, G., Lopez-Delgado, J.C. (2021). Nutrition. In: Landoni, G., Baiardo Redaelli, M., Sartini, C., Zangrillo, A., Bellomo, R. (eds) Reducing Mortality in Critically Ill Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71917-3_17

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