Nutritional Management of the Patient With Type 2 Diabetes at Nutritional Risk or With Malnutrition in Clinical Practice

Prior treatment

• Patients currently receiving or expected to receive other types of nutritional interventions involving supplements (oral or otherwise) or non-conventional feeding methods (e.g., feeding tubes).

Other illness

• Patients expected to undergo any surgical intervention or require hospitalization due to a condition unrelated to the study during the study period.
• Patients with other conditions that, in the investigator's opinion, may interfere with adherence to the intervention or with study procedures.

Lab values

• Patients with a history of metabolic/endocrine diseases (other than diabetes) or any other condition causing liver or kidney failure, defined as ALT \> 3x ULN or eGFR \< 30 ml/min/1.73 m², and according to the investigator's judgment.

Other

• Patients participating in other studies or clinical trials related to malnutrition, or who, in the investigator's opinion, may alter the course of the study.

• Adult patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D) or drug-induced diabetes
• Patients at nutritional risk according to MUST or presenting malnutrition according to GLIM criteria.
• Patients requiring a diabetes-specific oral nutritional supplement (ONS) that is high-calorie, high-protein, and contains soluble fiber in real-world clinical practice, and who have been prescribed such a supplement within the previous 7 days.
• Patients able to provide informed consent and complete the study questionnaires.