Nutritional status and screening tools to detect nutritional risk in hospitalized patients with hepatic echinococcosis

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Table 1

Characteristics of patients.

Variable	CE (n = 232) ESPEN criteria			AE (n = 164) ESPEN criteria
Variable	Not malnourished (n = 165)	Malnourished (n = 67)	p-value	Not malnourished (n = 112)	Malnourished (n = 52)	p-value
Clinical parameters
Age	46.91 ± 13.65	37.73 ± 16.78	0.001^*	41.91 ± 14.45	37.35 ± 14.87	0.064
Gender
Male	69	30	0.680	47	23	0.785
Female	96	37		65	29
Height	1.67 ± 0.15	1.65 ± 0.13	0.341	1.63 ± 0.11	1.62 ± 0.14	0.621
Weight	66.64 ± 10.91	49.09 ± 11.34	<0.001^*	61.72 ± 11.27	48.59 ± 8.92	<0.001^*
BMI (kg/m²)	22.26 ± 2.74	17.74 ± 1.52	<0.001^*	23.13 ± 3.09	18.14 ± 1.47	<0.001^*
ALB (U/L)	36.22 ± 5.01	32.41 ± 4.67	0.001^*	36.67 ± 4.51	32.70 ± 5.10	<0.001^*
HGB (g/L)	143.56 ± 24.38	136.74 ± 25.96	0.058	136.06 ± 24.52	120.02 ± 25.29	<0.001^*
LYMPH (10⁹/L)	1.71 ± 0.60	1.70 ± 0.75	0.901	1.66 ± 0.68	1.73 ± 0.73	0.574
Lesion size	7.62 ± 3.24	11.81 ± 5.85	<0.001^*	10.01 ± 4.51	13.74 ± 4.15	<0.001^*
Stage of CE [18]/AE [10]			0.154			0.001^*
CE1/I	43	21		29	4
CE2/II	60	27		25	7
CE3/IIIa	14	6		9	11
CE4/IIIb	8	4		18	3
CE5/IV	40	9		30	26
Hepatitis B	96	28		49	27	0.047^*
Gallbladder diseases	51	30		34	35	0.092
Echinococcosis disseminated [21]	14	9		11	17	0.125
Number of comorbidities			0.106			0.255
0	39	8		22	6
1–2	77	36		56	25
3–5	38	16		24	18
> 5	11	7		10	2

Abbreviations: BMI, Body Mass Index; ALB, albumin; HGB, hemoglobin; LYMPH, Lymphocyte.

Values expressing statistical significance (p ≤ 0.05).

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