Malnutrition in acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: clinical correlates and prognostic implications.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of nutritional status in post-discharge Asians with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).

Methods and results

We examined the prognostic implications of body mass index (BMI) and nutritional markers among consecutive patients hospitalized for HFpEF. Nutritional metrics were estimated by serum albumin (SA), prognostic nutritional index (PNI), Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score, and geriatric nutritional risk index. Among 1120 patients (mean age: 77.2 ± 12.6 years, 39.4% men), mean SA levels, PNI, CONUT scores, and geriatric nutritional risk index were 3.3 ± 0.6 g/dL, 40.2 ± 8.7, 5.5 ± 2.1, and 95.9 ± 14.5, respectively. Lean body size, higher white blood cell counts and C-reactive protei

SUBMITTER: Chien SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6816066 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature