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Observational studyRevista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina)2025

Comparison of the NUTRIC, NUTRICm and NUTRICpcr scores in critically ill patients ventilated for COVID-19.

Claudina Luchitta, Dino Moretti, Daniel Horacio Bagilet, Nicolas Sebastian Rocchetti, Sheila Diodati, Silvana Paola Gattino, Melisa Debora Re, Claudio Jesus Settecase

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Claudina LuchittaClemente Álvarez Emergency Hospital.
Dino MorettiNational University of Rosario.
Daniel Horacio BagiletNational University of Rosario.
Nicolas Sebastian RocchettiNational University of Rosario.
Sheila DiodatiNational University of Rosario.
Silvana Paola GattinoNational University of Rosario.
Melisa Debora ReNational University of Rosario.
Claudio Jesus SettecaseNational University of Rosario.

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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic caused a dramatic increase in ICU admissions due to severe acute respiratory syndrome. The NUTRIC score (with IL-6) and its variants NUTRICm (without IL-6) and NUTRICpcr (CRP instead of IL-6) were proposed to evaluate nutritional risk (RN) and even prognosis in critically ill patients. Methods: Scores with inflammatory biomarkers (NUTRIC and NUTRICpcr) and without them (NUTRICm) were evaluated through a prospective and observational study to discriminate mortality and assess NB in patients ventilated for COVID-19. Results: 418 patients were analyzed. The median (IQR) age and APACHE II were: 54 years (6-61) and 13 points (10-19). 79% died in the ICU. The highest agreement was between NUTRICm and NUTRICpcr (Kappa= 0.88). The AUCROC (95% CI) to discriminate mortality was: NUTRIC 0.661 (0.598-0.724), NUTRICpcr 0.635 (0.572-0.697) and NUTRICm 0.659 (0.596-0.722). The high RN classification showed differences between the scores with and without an inflammatory biomarker, being significant between NUTRIC and NUTRICm (14.6% vs 22.7%, p 0.0033). Conclusion: In ventilated COVID-19 patients, the three nutritional risk scores studied discriminate mortality in a similar way, but the assessment of high NR differs between them, with a higher prevalence for the NUTRICm, which omits the inflammatory biomarker.

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COVID-19Critical IllnessNutrition AssessmentRespiration, ArtificialAdolescentAdultAgedAPACHEBiomarkersFemaleHumansIntensive Care UnitsInterleukin-6MaleMiddle AgedNutritional StatusBiomarkersInterleukin-6biomarkersCOVID-19nutritional supportnutrition assessmentprognosis

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