ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2023
Associations of albumin and nutritional index factors with delirium in patients admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit.
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- Association of the Albumin-Bilirubin score with 7-day incident delirium risk following bloodstream infection in critically ill adults: evidence from a propensity-weighted cohort.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Association Between Lactate/Albumin Ratio and Delirium Risk in Critically Ill Patients With Acute Heart Failure: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Clinical cardiology · 2026Observational
- Clinical risk factors for multidrug-resistant organism infections in postoperative gastric cancer patients: an ICU-based retrospective analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Prognostic value of the C-reactive protein-albumin-lymphocyte index for postoperative visual hallucinations following cardiac surgery.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Comparative predictive value of preoperative GNRI, PNI, and CONUT for postoperative delirium in geriatric abdominal surgery patients admitted to the ICU.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Comparative analysis of four nutritional scores in predicting delirium in ICU patients.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Does ICU admission dysphagia independently contribute to delirium risk in ischemic stroke patients? Results from a cohort study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Limited data are available on the association of malnutrition with the occurrence of delirium in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). Thus, we aimed to analyze whether nutritional indices and their components can predict the development of delirium in CICU. Methods: We enrolled 2,783 patients admitted to the CICU of Samsung Medical Center for more than 24 h between September 2012 and December 2018. We assessed the nutritional status at admission using three indices, the Prognostic Nutrition Index (PNI), the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), and the Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT). Then, we compared predictive performances for the occurrence of delirium among nutritional indices using Delong's test. Results: Delirium developed in 678 patients (24.3%) assessed three times daily for 7 days of CICU stay. Nutritional indices had fair predictive performance for development of delirium in critically ill cardiac patients using the area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUROC: 0.729 for the GNRI, 0.728 for PNI, and 0.762 for CONUT). Furthermore, the AUROC of albumin alone (0.77, 95% CI, 0.75-0.79) was significantly greater than that of either GNRI ( Conclusion: Predictive performances of nutritional indices for the occurrence of delirium were acceptable in patients admitted to CICU. Albumin alone might be a helpful and straightforward indicator for the occurrence of delirium.
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