ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2025
The relationship between nutritional status and prealbumin levels in children with loss of appetite and iron deficiency: a prospective cross-sectional study.
Article in Frontiers in nutrition, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Development and external validation of machine learning models to predict insulin resistance among iron-deficient children and adolescents.Translational pediatrics · 2026Article
- Comparison of the Predictive Value of CRP/Albumin, CRP/Prealbumin, and the Clinical Frailty Scale for Mortality in Geriatric Intensive Care Patients.Saudi medical journal · 2026Article
- Postoperative morbidity following surgery for mechanical adhesive small bowel obstruction: prevalence, risk factors and clinical outcomes.BMC surgery · 2026Article
- Risk factors associated with prolonged stay in the post-anesthesia care unit: a case-control study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Association between the prognostic nutritional index and early mortality of AML patients after allogeneic HSCT: a retrospective cohort analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Prealbumin, a hepatic protein with a short half-life, has emerged as a sensitive biomarker for assessing nutritional status. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between nutritional status and prealbumin levels in children experiencing loss of appetite due to iron deficiency and to compare the diagnostic value of prealbumin with established nutritional indices. Methods: A total of 260 children aged 2-15 years were enrolled and categorized into four groups: control ( Results: Prealbumin levels were significantly lower in all patient groups than in controls ( Conclusion: While appetite loss is a clinically reported symptom, reduced prealbumin levels reflect the underlying nutritional impact of this condition. Prealbumin is a sensitive and reliable biomarker for assessing nutritional deterioration associated with both appetite loss and iron deficiency in children and outperforms commonly used nutritional indices. Its use may improve early recognition and management of nutritional risk in pediatric populations. Further research is needed to explore the diagnostic and prognostic value of nutritional indices (CONUT, PNI, and NRI) in children.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.