Nutritional Risk at intensive care unit admission and outcomes in survivors of critical illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Risk factors for poor outcomes after critical illness are incompletely understood. While nutritional risk is associated with mortality in critically ill patients, its association with disability, cognitive, and health-related quality of life is unclear in survivors of critical illness. This study's objective was to determine whether greater nutritional risk at ICU admission is associated with greater disability, worse cognition, and worse HRQOL at 3 and 12-month follow-up.

Methods

We enrolled adults (≥18 years of age) with respiratory failure or shock treated in medical and surgical intensive care units from two U.S. centers. We measured nutritional risk using the modified Nutrition Risk in Critically Ill (mNUTRIC) score (range 0-9 [highest risk]) at inte

SUBMITTER: Mart MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8243837 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature