Current clinical nutrition challenges and emerging interest        WU Guo-hao. Department of Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Abstract    Recent advance in clinical nutrition has involved recognition and assessment of nutritional risk, development of nutrition formulations, appropriate application and clinical practice guidelines of nutritional support. Despite much developments achieved in the field of clinical nutrition, controversies and large gaps exist between many recommendations and actual practice, and consequently nutrition therapy is suboptimal.