Journal of Diagnostics Concepts & Practice ›› 2017, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (04): 425-429.doi: 10.16150/j.1671-2870.2017.04.016

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Correlation analysis on nutritional status of elderly malignant tumor patients and one-year mortality

SHENG Honga, CAO Weixinb   

  1. a. Department of Gerontology; b. Department of Clinical Nutrition, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
  • Received:2017-06-15 Online:2017-08-25 Published:2017-08-25

Abstract: Objectives: To investigate the nutritional status of elderly malignant tumor patients and to analyze the relation between malnutrition and one-year mortality. Methods: The nutritional status of elderly patients diagnosed as malignant tumor admitted in the department of gerontology, Ruijin Hospital were assessed by mininutritional assessment-short form (MNA-SF), and body mass index (BMI), hemoglobin, prealbumin, albumin, triglyceride and total cholesterol were measured and the patients were followed up for calculating the one-year survival. Results: One hundred and twenty four patients were included in the study. The incidence of nutrition, risky malnutrition and malnutrition was 69.4%, 26.6% and 4.0%, respectively, according to the MNA-SF. The one-year mortality was 17.7% in overall patients; and among the three groups, the one-year mortality was the highest(60%) in malnutrition group. After adjustment for confounding variables, COX regression model suggested that malnutrition can increase the risk of one-year mortality. Conclusions: Malnutrition can predict independently the risk of death of the elderly malignant tumor patients within one year.

Key words: Elderly malignant tumor, Nutritional status, Risky nutritional status, MNA-SF, Mortality

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