Refeeding Syndrome: A Literature Review

Table 2

Malnourished patients at risk of RFS [5, 6, 8, 29].

Anorexia nervosa	Chronic alcoholism
Radiation therapy	Major stressors without food for >7 days
Oncology patients	Postoperative patients
Severe malnutrition (Marasmus/Kwashiorkor)	Institutionalized patients
Pathological weight loss	Hunger strikes
Stroke (Neurological problems)	Malabsorption diseases
Inflammatory bowel diseases	Post bariatric surgery
Chronic pancreatitis	Elderly, poor social circumstance
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome	Diabetes Mellitus