Association of Four Nutritional Scores With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in the General Population.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Malnutrition is a well known risk factor for adverse outcomes in patients with cancer, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and chronic kidney disease, but epidemiological evidence on its relationship with the long-term risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular death is limited.

Methods

A total of 20,116 adults from the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2014 were enrolled. The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score, and Triglycerides (TG) × Total Cholesterol (TC) × Body Weight (BW) Index (TCBI) were calculated at baseline. Cox regression and the Kaplan-Meier analysis were conducted when participants were divided into three groups according to

SUBMITTER: Fan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006821 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature