ArticleBMC geriatrics2021
The correlation between nutrition and frailty and the receiver operating characteristic curve of different nutritional indexes for frailty.
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- Constructing and evaluating a predictive model for the risk of preoperative frailty in breast cancer patients.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Practical Considerations in the Management of Frail Older People with Diabetes.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Change in Feeding and Swallowing Function in Elderly Patients with Isolated Hospitalization for COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- The Effect of Frailty on Body Composition and Its Impact on the Use of SGLT-2 Inhibitors and GLP-1RA in Older Persons with Diabetes.Metabolites · 2025Review
- Association between frailty and bone health in early-stage chronic kidney disease: a study from the population-based CARTaGENE cohort.Clinical kidney journal · 2025Article
- Association of the interaction between nutritional status and frailty level with sleep quality in older adults.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- An Investigation of the Risk Factors Related to Frailty in Older Adults Receiving Home Care Services.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Preliminary evaluation of home-delivered meals for reducing frailty in older adults at risk for mal-nutrition.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2024Observational
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Abstract
backgroundFrailty is a kind of geriatric syndrome, which is very common in the elderly. Patients with malnutrition are at higher risk of frailty. This study explored the correlation between nutrition and frailty and compared the receiver operating characteristic curve of different nutritional indexes for frailty.
methodsThis cross-sectional study included 179 inpatients aged ≥65 years old. Frailty was measured using Fried Frailty Phenotype, handgrip strength was measured using JAMAR@Plus and the 4.57 m usual gait speed was measured using a stopwatch. Comprehensive nutritional assessment refers to the application of Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) to assess the nutritional status of patients.
resultsCompared with the non-frailty group, the upper arm circumference, calf circumference, hemoglobin, albumin, prealbumin, cholesterol and low density lipoprotein in the frailty group were lower (P < 0.05). Comprehensive nutritional assessment, whether as a categorical variable or a continuous variable, was significantly correlated with frailty (P < 0.05). Model1 showed that the risk of frailty in malnourished patients was 3.381 times higher than that in well nourished patients (P = 0.036). Model2 showed that the risk of frailty decreased by 13.8% for every 1 point increase in MNA score (P = 0.009). The area under the curves of albumin, prealbumin and hemoglobin was larger (AUC > 0.65), AUC was 0.718, 0.693 and 0.743, respectively.
conclusionsOur results suggest that malnutrition is closely related to frailty. As for single nutritional indexes, albumin, prealbumin and hemoglobin were found to be associated with frailty. Further cohort studies are needed to verify their ability to screen for frailty.
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