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Nutritional state predicts all-cause death independent of comorbidities in geriatric patients with coronary artery disease

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The journal of nutrition, health & aging

Abstract

Objective

To explore whether nutritional risk is associated with poor outcomes independent of complicated clinical status in older patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

Patients referred for coronary angiography in West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China.

Participants

1772 patients with angiographic documented CAD whose age was above 65 years.

Measurements

Nutritional state was appraised using geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI). Nutritional risk was defined as the GNRI below 98. The event rate of all-cause death was observed among patients with nutritional risk and those without.

Results

During a median follow-up period of 27 months, 224 patients died. Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that nutritional risk was associated with all-cause death (adjusted hazard ratio 1.99; 95% confidence interval 1.35–2.95; P=0.001). Subgroup analysis verified the association between nutritional risk and death among patients with distinct clinical features, comorbidities, and medication. There was no interaction between nutritional risk and clinical characteristics with regard to all-cause death.

Conclusion

Nutritional state is independently associated with the risk of all-cause death in geriatric patients with CAD. Whether nutritional support in appropriate patients improves clinical outcomes deserves further investigation.

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    B.-T. Huang, Y. Peng, W. Liu, C. Zhang, H. Chai, F.-Y. Huang, Z.-L. Zuo, Y.-B. Liao, T.-L. Xia & Mao Chen

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Huang, BT., Peng, Y., Liu, W. et al. Nutritional state predicts all-cause death independent of comorbidities in geriatric patients with coronary artery disease. J Nutr Health Aging 20, 199–204 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12603-015-0572-2

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