Prevalence and Prognostic Value of Malnutrition Among Elderly Cancer Patients Using Three Scoring Systems

Prevalence and Prognostic Value of Malnutrition Among Elderly Cancer Patients Using Three Scoring Systems

Background: Malnutrition is common in patients with cancer and is associated with adverse outcomes, but few data exist in elderly patients. The aim of this study was to report the prevalence of malnutrition using three different scoring systems and to examine the possible clinical relationship and p...

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Main Authors: Qi Zhang, Liang Qian, Tong Liu, Jia-Shan Ding, Xi Zhang, Meng-Meng Song, Zi-Wen Wang, Yi-Zhong Ge, Chun-Lei Hu, Xiang-Rui Li, Meng Tang, Kun-Hua Wang, Rocco Barazzoni, Chun-Hua Song, Hong-Xia Xu, Han-Ping Shi, Investigation on Nutrition Status and Its Clinical Outcome of Common Cancers (INSCOC) Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Nutrition
Subjects:
elderly patients
malnutrition index
cancer
prognostic
NRI
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.738550/full

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