Prognostic impact of nutritional status and physical capacity in elderly patients with acute decompensated heart failure

Authors :: Haruhiko Abe
Tsuyoshi Mishima
Yoshinori Iida
Masaaki Uematsu
Kaori Yasumura
Yukihiro Koretsune
Hiroki Nishida
Motoo Date
Masayuki Nakamura
Chieko Toriyama
Yasunori Ueda
Kazuya Shinouchi
Akiko Idemoto
Taishi Kato
Masaki Awata
Source :: ESC Heart Failure, Vol 7, Iss 4, Pp 1801-1808 (2020), ESC Heart Failure
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Wiley, 2020.
Abstract: Aims Nutritional status as well as physical capacity is related to prognosis in patients with heart failure. The purpose of this study was to explore a simple prognostic indicator in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) by including both nutritional status and physical capacity. Methods and results Patients hospitalized with ADHF (N = 203; mean age, 81 years) were enrolled. We evaluated the geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI) on hospital admission and at discharge. A GNRI score

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