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Introduction
Disease-related malnutrition remains highly prevalent across Europe, yet is frequently undiagnosed, and undertreated. It is associated with significant economic and clinical burden and continues to represent a significant challenge for our healthcare systems.
The solution to this lies in medical nutrition. Timely and tailored nutritional interventions consistently improve patient outcomes, including survival, physical recovery, and quality of life. While also generating cost efficiencies.
Meeting the needs of patients and health systems requires early nutritional care to be embedded as a core component of patient care, supported by robust policy frameworks, professional training, and implementation of nutritional guidelines.
The 2025 edition of the MNI Medical Nutrition Dossier presents the latest data and insights on the prevalence, causes, and consequences of disease-related malnutrition, alongside updated clinical and health-economic evidence demonstrating the value and benefits of nutritional interventions.
Beyond the clinical and economic findings, this edition highlights the evolving legal and ethical context – most notably the Vienna Declaration of 2022, which formally recognises nutritional care as a fundamental human right.
Building on the 2018 edition of the MNI Medical Nutrition Dossier, which estimated that 33 million people in Europe were affected by disease-related malnutrition, with an estimated annual economic burden of €170 billion, the 2025 version provides updated data, new international guidelines, and the latest scientific evidence.
Whether you are a healthcare professional, policymaker, patient advocate, or other stakeholder, we sincerely hope that you will find the MNI dossier will serve as a useful and insightful resource. Real progress in nutritional care can only be achieved if we work together
Acknowledgements
We would like to express our appreciation to our colleagues from MNI-affiliated companies participating in the MNI Medical Dossier Task Force for their dedication, expertise, and collaboration throughout the update of this evidence base.
We gratefully acknowledge the input of all the experts who contributed to earlier versions of the MNI Medical Dossier, which form a basis for this update.
Writers
The MNI extends its thanks to the Rx Talent Hub team of medical writers, including Claire El Jor, Batoul Manana, Marya Hanna, Mariam Hakim, Tracy Daou and Suzanne Niemeyer-Awad for their thorough collation and writing of this resource.
We further acknowledge valuable contributions of Fionna Page and Julie Winstone to earlier editions of the dossier.