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Geriatric nutritional risk index in hospitalized heart failure patients

2014; Elsevier BV; Volume: 181; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.11.167

1874-1754

Hidehiro Kaneko, Shinya Suzuki, Masato Goto, Yasufumi Yuzawa, Takuto Arita, Naoharu Yagi, Nobuhiro Murata, Yuko Kato, Hiroto Kano, Shunsuke Matsuno, Takayuki Otsuka, Tokuhisa Uejima, Hideaki Takai, Yuji Oikawa, Takashi Kunihara, Kazuyuki Nagashima, Hajime Kirigaya, Koichi Sagara, Hitoshi Sawada, Tadanori Aizawa, Junji Yajima, Takeshi Yamashita,

Frailty in Older Adults

Malnutrition is commonly observed in heart failure (HF) patients, and the presence of malnutrition is associated with poor clinical outcomes in HF patients [ 1 Anker S.D. Ponikowski P. Varney S. et al. Wasting as independent risk factor for mortality in chronic heart failure. Lancet. 1997; 349: 1050-1053 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (1142) Google Scholar , 2 Kalantar-Zadeh K. Anker S.D. Horwich T.B. et al. Nutritional and anti-inflammatory interventions in chronic heart failure. Am. J. Cardiol. 2008; 101: 89E-103E Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (139) Google Scholar ]. The geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI) is recently used as an objective and simple nutritional assessment option determined by only serum albumin and body-mass index (BMI) [ [3] Bouillanne O. Morineau G. Dupont C. et al. Geriatric nutritional risk index: a new index for evaluating at-risk elderly medical patients. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 2005; 82: 777-783 PubMed Scopus (1042) Google Scholar ]. However, the predictive value of GNR in hospitalized HF patients remains unclarified. In this study, we examined the predictive significance of GNRI in hospitalized HF patients.