Malnutrition in hospital.
Sir,

We read with interest the article by Kelly et al .1 suggesting that malnutrition in acute hospital admissions is common, and apparently is unrecognized and unmanaged in 70% of cases. We suggest that malnutrition in acute hospital admissions may actually be further exacerbated by the diet provided to in‐hospital patients.

In a pilot project to study patient nutrition in our city centre teaching hospital, we evaluated the dietary intake of 35 patients (18 males, 17 females; mean age 64.9 and 64.4 years) in our cardiac rehabilitation ward. All patients were mobile and clinically stable, after having been admitted as emergency admissions with acute coronary syndromes (myocardial infarct or unstable …