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JOURNAL OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
Volume 33, Issue 6, Pages 862-868Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jhn.12759
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advanced chronic liver disease; malnutrition; nutritional screening
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Background Different nutritional screening instruments can be used to identify the risk of malnutrition in advanced chronic liver disease patients. The present study aimed to evaluate and compare two nutrition screening tools with the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) diagnostic criteria for malnutrition in patients with advanced chronic liver disease. Methods Two nutritional screening tools, Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) and Royal Free Hospital Nutritional Prioritizing Tool (RFH-NPT), were assessed for 166 patients with liver cirrhosis. We compared medium/high nutritional risk screening with the diagnosis of malnutrition, using the GLIM criteria as the reference standard. Results According to the GLIM criteria, 57.3% of the patients were malnourished. NRS and RFH-NPT identified, respectively, 36.1% and 52.4% of patients with nutritional risk. RFH-NPT presented better agreement with the diagnosis according to GLIM criteria (k = 0.64; 95% confidence interval = 0.52-0.75), higher sensitivity (80%), higher negative predictive value (79%) and larger area under the curve (82.3%) compared to the NRS. Conclusions RFH-NPT, when compared with the GLIM method, has substantial agreement in identifying nutritional risk, good sensitivity and good value for diagnosing malnutrition in patients with advanced chronic liver disease.
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