ArticleNutrients2024
Association between Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) Score and Body Composition, Inflammation and Frailty in Hospitalized Elderly Patients.
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- CONUT Score as a Predictor of Mortality Risk in Acute and Chronic Heart Failure: A Meta-Analytic Review.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- The Current Status of Frailty and Influencing Factors in Elderly Patients With Hip Fractures: A Meta-Analysis.BioMed research international · 2025Pooled it
- Myosteatosis is associated with adverse in-hospital outcomes and CONUT score in hospitalized internal medicine patients.Acta diabetologica · 2026Article
- The CONUT Score Independently Predicts Mortality in Older Patients with Hip Fracture.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Observational
- Associations between nutritional risk indices and fall history in older adults: a retrospective cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Nutritional-immunological assessment by CONUT score predicts surgical outcomes in tuberculous empyema: development of a multivariate risk model.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2026Review
- Clinical significance of controlling nutritional status score in predicting ICU admission, prolonged hospitalization, and in-hospital mortality in emergency sepsis: a single-center retrospective study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Association of CONUT Score with Ultrasound-Measured Muscle Mass and 30-, 45-, and 60-Day Mortality in Geriatric Palliative Care Patients: A Prospective Observational Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The Effect of Diabetes Medication on the Scores of the GNRI and CONUT Nutritional Indices: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Retrospective Studies.Clinical and translational science · 2025Article
- Urban Quality and Biochemical, Hematological, and Nutritional Markers in Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Geospatial Study.JMIR aging · 2025Article
- Malnutrition increases the risk of atrial fibrillation.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Observational
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- Refining Nutritional Assessment Methods for Older Adults: A Pilot Study on Sicilian Long-Living Individuals.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Skeletal Muscle Mass Index and Body Fat Percentage Reflect Different Nutritional Markers Independent of BMI in Underweight Women.Nutrients · 2025Observational
- Malnutrition and Frailty Are Associated with a Higher Risk of Prolonged Hospitalization and Mortality in Hospitalized Older Adults.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Handgrip strength as a potential indicator of aging: insights from its association with aging-related laboratory parameters.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Association between cerebral small vessel disease and malnutrition risk: a retrospective cross-sectional study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- The predictive value comparison of the different nutritional assessment tools for postoperative delirium in elderly patients after non-cardiac surgery.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Association between controlling nutritional status score and mortality in older patients with dysphagia in Japan:Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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Abstract
The Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score has demonstrated its ability to identify patients with poor nutritional status and predict various clinical outcomes. Our objective was to assess the association between the CONUT score, inflammatory status, and body composition, as well as its ability to identify patients at risk of frailty in hospitalized elderly patients.
methodsa total of 361 patients were retrospectively recruited and divided into three groups based on the CONUT score.
resultspatients with a score ≥5 exhibited significantly higher levels of inflammatory markers, such as erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), Neutrophil/Lymphocytes ratio (NLR), main platelet volume (MPV), and ferritin, compared to those with a lower score. Furthermore, these patients showed unfavorable changes in body composition, including a lower percentage of skeletal muscle mass (MM) and fat-free mass (FFM) and a higher percentage of fatty mass (FM). A positive correlation was found between the CONUT score and inflammatory markers, Geriatric Depression Scale Short Form (GDS-SF), and FM. Conversely, the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), Mini-Mental Status Examination, activity daily living (ADL), instrumental activity daily living (IADL), Barthel index, FFM, and MM showed a negative correlation. Frailty was highly prevalent among patients with a higher CONUT score. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve demonstrated high accuracy in identifying frail patients (sensitivity).
conclusionsa high CONUT score is associated with a pro-inflammatory status as well as with unfavorable body composition. Additionally, it is a good tool to identify frailty among hospitalized elderly patients.
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