Agreement and Classification Performance of Malnutrition Tools in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malnutrition is common in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and is associated with adverse outcome, but few data exist.

Objectives

The objective of this study was to compare the agreement and classification performance of 6 malnutrition tools in patients with CHF.

Methods

We evaluated the performance of 6 malnutrition tools: COntrolling NUTritional Status Index (CONUT), Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form (MNA-SF), and Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), in 467 consecutive patients with CHF who attended our clinic for follow-up. We used Venn diagrams and Kappa statistics to study the agreement of different tools. Because ther

SUBMITTER: Sze S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7272189 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature