What are biomarkers of nutritional assessment?

In general terms, a nutritional biomarker can be defined as “any biological specimen that is an indicator of nutritional status with respect to intake or metabolism of dietary constituents. It can be biochemical, functional or clinical index of status of an essential nutrient or another dietary constituent” [14].

What are nutrient markers?

Serum visceral proteins such as albumin and prealbumin have traditionally been used as markers of the nutritional status of patients. Prealbumin is nowadays often preferred over albumin due to its shorter half live, reflecting more rapid changes of the nutritional state.

What are the biomarkers of health?

Biomarkers are the measures used to perform a clinical assessment such as blood pressure or cholesterol level and are used to monitor and predict health states in individuals or across populations so that appropriate therapeutic intervention can be planned.

Which method used for check the nutritional status?

Anthropometry is the measurement of physical dimensions such as height or weight, as well as the fat mass composition of the human body to provide information about a person’s nutritional status. An index is a combination of two anthropometric measurements or an anthropometric measurement plus age.

What is meant by biomarkers?

(BY-oh-MAR-ker) A biological molecule found in blood, other body fluids, or tissues that is a sign of a normal or abnormal process, or of a condition or disease. A biomarker may be used to see how well the body responds to a treatment for a disease or condition.

What are predictive biomarkers?

Predictive biomarkers are measures of the likelihood of response or lack of response of a particular therapy, and allow identification of patients most likely to benefit from a given treatment, thus sparing other patients from toxicities of ineffective therapies.

What are biochemical markers?

Any biochemical compound such as an antigen, antibody, abnormal enzyme, or hormone that is sufficiently altered in a disease to serve as an aid in diagnosing or in predicting susceptibility to the disease.