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Observational studyFrontiers in neurology2026

Association between complete blood count-derived hematological inflammatory ratios and nutritional risk in elderly patients with acute ischemic stroke.

Liang'e Xu, Wenjing Wu, Chao Chen

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Liang'e XuDepartment of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
Wenjing WuDepartment of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Chao ChenDepartment of Clinical Nutrition, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.

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Background and aims: Mounting evidence suggests CBC-derived hematological inflammatory ratios correlate with nutritional status, yet few studies explore their cross-sectional associations with GNRI-defined concurrent nutritional risk in elderly patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). This single-center, cross-sectional, observational study was designed to evaluate the correlation between routine admission hematological markers and nutritional risk in elderly patients with AIS. Twelve CBC-derived indices were analyzed: lymphocyte ratio (LR), red blood cell-to-lymphocyte ratio (RLR), hemoglobin-to-lymphocyte ratio (HLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR), monocyte-to-neutrophil ratio (MNR), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), NLR-to-platelet ratio (NLR/PLT100), MLR-to-platelet ratio (MLR/PLT), platelet-to-neutrophil ratio (PNR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), mean platelet volume-to-lymphocyte ratio (MPVLR), serum albumin-to-lymphocyte ratio (ALBLR). Methods: Between January 2022 and January 2024, 540 elderly AIS patients (≥60 years) were enrolled. All participants underwent admission GNRI assessment and were split into GNRI-defined nutritional risk group (GNRI≤98, Results: Multiple indicators including age, hypertension, ALT, UA, TG, LR, RLR, MLR, NLR, NLR/PLT100, MLR/PLT, PLR and MPVLR showed univariate correlations with nutritional risk. Multivariate regression identified MLR and NLR/PLT100 as independent correlates within this cohort; MLR showed the strongest association in this dataset instead of robust correlative ability. Adding MLR alone or combining MLR + NLR/PLT100 to base clinical variables significantly improved C-statistic. The combined model reached an AUC of 0.735, representing only moderate discriminative capacity, and it was merely the superior exploratory model limited to the present sample without external generalizability. Conclusion: Within this single-center cohort, MLR exhibited the strongest cross-sectional correlation with GNRI-defined nutritional risk among all tested CBC-derived hematological inflammatory ratios. The composite model combining baseline clinical indicators, MLR and NLR/PLT*100 demonstrated moderate discriminative ability within the study sample, but is not yet robust enough to serve as an effective tool for routine clinical risk stratification.

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InflammationIschemic StrokeNutritional StatusAgedAged, 80 and overBlood Cell CountCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansLymphocytesMaleMiddle AgedNeutrophilsRisk Factorsacute ischemic strokeCBC-derived hematological inflammatory ratioselderly patientsmonocyte-to-lymphocyte rationutritional risk

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PMCPMC13630611

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