ArticleNutrients2023
COntrolling NUTritional Status (CONUT) as Predictive Score of Hospital Length of Stay (LOS) and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study in an Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Unit in Italy.
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- Assessment of Nutritional Status in Children with Familial Mediterranean Fever Using Prognostic Nutritional Index and Controlling Nutritional Status Score: Relationship with Clinical Findings and MEFV Mutations.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Skeletal Muscle Mass Index and Body Fat Percentage Reflect Different Nutritional Markers Independent of BMI in Underweight Women.Nutrients · 2025Observational
- Effectiveness of nutrition support team-led care on perioperative outcomes in malnourished older adults with gastric cancer.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Albumin-related nutritional indices and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in older adults with severe dysphagia receiving artificial feeding.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- The predictive ability of Controlling Nutritional Status score on in-hospital mortality in patients admitted to coronary care unit.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2024Article
- Prognostic impact of CONUT score in older patients with chronic heart failure.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
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- Controlling Nutritional Status Score as a Predictor for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation Risk in Elderly Patients.Metabolites · 2023Article
- Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) Score as a Predictive Marker in Hospitalized Frail Elderly Patients.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundHospital malnutrition affects nearly 30% of patients in medical wards and correlates with worse outcomes. An early assessment is necessary to stratify the risk of short-term outcomes and mortality. The predictive role of COntrolling NUTritional status (CONUT) score in this context has not yet been elucidated in Western countries. We aimed to test CONUT at admission as a predictive score of hospital outcomes, in an Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Department of an Italian Tertiary Care University hospital.
methodsWe prospectively enrolled patients admitted to our center, stratifying them into the four CONUT classes (normal = 0-1; mild = 2-4; moderate = 5-8; severe = 9-12 points) according to serum albumin (g/dL), total lymphocyte count (/mm
resultsOut of a total of 203 patients enrolled, 44 (21.7%) patients had a normal status (0-1), 66 (32.5%) had a mild impairment (2-4), 68 (33.5%) had a moderate impairment (5-8), and 25 (12.3%) a severe impairment (9-12). The mean LOS was 8.24 ± 5.75 days; nine patients died. A moderate-severe CONUT correlated with a higher LOS at the univariate [HR 1.86 (95% CI 13.9-3.47);
conclusionsCONUT is a reliable and simple predictor of LOS and in-hospital mortality in medical wards.
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