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ArticleNutrients2022

Pancreatic Cancer Prognosis, Malnutrition Risk, and Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Kalliopi-Anna Poulia, Dimitra Antoniadou, Panagiotis Sarantis, Michalis V Karamouzis

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Article in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Nourishing Hope: Five Essential Nutrition Tips for Patients With Pancreatic Cancer.Journal of the advanced practitioner in oncology · 2026
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  20. Role of noncoding RNAs in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma associated cachexia.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kalliopi-Anna PouliaLaboratory of Dietetics and Quality of Life, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0023-8102
Dimitra AntoniadouOncology Department of Daily Hospitality, Laiko General Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Panagiotis SarantisMolecular Oncology Unit, Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 75, M. Asias Street, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5848-7905
Michalis V KaramouzisMolecular Oncology Unit, Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 75, M. Asias Street, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-1369-8201
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRAgricultural University of Athens · GRLaiko General Hospital of Athens · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present cross-sectional prospective study (from January 2017 until December 2020) aimed to evaluate the interrelation between nutritional parameters at the initial evaluation with the changes in QOL indicators and the Progression-Free Survival and Overall Survival in 97 patients with pancreatic cancer. Dietary and nutritional risk assessments, and an evaluation of Frailty and Functional Status were performed. Health-related Quality of Life was evaluated with the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire. Nutritional risk, as evaluated by MNA-SF score, was negatively associated with age (p = 0.003) and positively associated with dynamometry (p = 0.001). In addition, there was a statistically significant difference in the financial difficulties (p = 0.049). OS and PFS were found to decrease in patients who reported having increased fatigue (OS p = 0.007 and PFS p = 0.044). Moreover, higher prevalence of constipation resulted in lower OS and PFS (OS p < 0.001 and PFS p < 0.001) and increased reporting of gastrointestinal problems during the 3 months was connected with lower survival (OS p = 0.017). According to the analysis, our patients were found to have lower OS and PFS, stressing out the necessity to provide early identification and management to symptoms of the disease that could compromise nutritional status. The provision of nutritional advice and guidance is of major importance for patients.

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MalnutritionPancreatic NeoplasmsCross-Sectional StudiesHumansPrognosisProspective StudiesQuality of Lifecachexiamalnutritionpancreatic cancerquality of lifesurvival

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PMID35276801
PMCPMC8840349
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