Usefulness of nutritional therapy recommended in the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology/Japan Society of Hepatology evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for liver cirrhosis 2020

The JSGE/JSH guidelines for the management of patients with liver cirrhosis revised in 2020 recommends new strategies for nutritional assessment and intervention, although their usefulness in daily clinical practice is unclear. A total of 769 patients with cirrhosis were classified into low-, intermediate-, and high-risk groups according to hypoalbuminemia and sarcopenia, the criteria established for initiating the nutritional therapy algorithm...