Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Prognostic Impact of Nutrition Measures in Patients with Heart Failure Varies with Coexisting Physical Frailty
Authors' conclusion
The CONUT score predicted a poor prognosis in HF patients with coexisting physical frailty
Study context
- Population
- Japanese patients with heart failure (HF) aged ≥65 years (age 78.6 ± 7.4; 44% female), nutrition assessed at discharge
- Participants
- 1,617 patients
- Exposure
- Nutrition measures by frailty status
- Outcome
- Composite of:
- All-cause mortality
- Cardiac readmissions
- Follow-up
- Within 2 years of hospital discharge
Methodological detailsmulticentre
- Multicentre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Composite outcome by nutrition measure, by frailty subgroup
- Frail: all three nutritional indicators associated with cumulative incidence (log-rank)
- P < 0.05
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Prognostic Impact of Nutrition Measures in Patients with Heart Failure Varies with Coexisting Physical Frailty. ESC Heart Fail. Published 7 September 2023. doi:10.
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