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ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2026

The prognostic nutritional index vs. MELD for short-term mortality in critically ill liver disease: a retrospective multi-cohort study.

Lujun Shao, Yue Li, Cheng Xu, Li Wang, Huiyu Tai

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Lujun ShaoDepartment of Intensive Care Unit, The Affiliated Taizhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Taizhou, China.
Yue LiDepartment of Intensive Care Unit, The Affiliated Taizhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Taizhou, China.
Cheng XuDepartment of Intensive Care Unit, The Affiliated Taizhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Taizhou, China.
Li WangDepartment of Intensive Care Unit, The Affiliated Taizhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Taizhou, China.
Huiyu TaiDepartment of Intensive Care Unit, The Affiliated Taizhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Taizhou, China.

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Abstract

Malnutrition, sarcopenia and frailty are common in advanced liver disease and predict poorer survival, encouraging simple blood-based indices when formal assessment is impractical. The most widely used, the Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), combines serum albumin and the peripheral lymphocyte count; yet both have been reported to be strongly influenced by systemic inflammation as well as by nutrition, and the index is seldom benchmarked against a disease-specific reference or against albumin alone. We evaluated whether the PNI provides clinically useful prognostic information for short-term mortality in critically ill patients with liver disease, using three independent cohorts: a North American intensive-care primary cohort (

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critical illnessliver cirrhosismalnutritionMELDmortalitynutritional risk screeningprognostic nutritional indexserum albumin

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