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Juana Morillas, a researcher at the San Antonio de Murcia Catholic University, will collaborate with the Hospital Reina Sofía in research that will reveal the effect that certain types of fats in surgical patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
"Their results have a direct impact on improving the treatment of critically ill patients. Derivatives positive aspects of good nutrition influence their clinical improvement," says Juana Morillas.
The Reina Sofía Hospital will conduct the selection process of the patients, as well as sampling and monitoring of clinical parameters, while it will be in the laboratories of Nutrition and Food Technology UCAM which are carried out some analyze the samples for oxidation, the state of the fatty acids and the evolution of these patients according to the type of fats that are in their food.
In the research project, which will last three years and starting this month, two different types of lipids, both with plenty of oleic acid characteristic of olive oil, but one of them will be further enriched in fish oil (fatty acids compared omega 3).
"Everything positively impacting the human being is of interest in our university," says Juana Morillas.
Source: UCAM
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