Prevalence of nutritional risk and malnutrition among hospitalized elderly abdominal surgical patients with malignant tumors
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-635X.2011.06.003
- VernacularTitle:老年腹部外科恶性肿瘤患者营养风险和营养不良(不足)状况的对比调查
- Author:
Guodong YE
;
Mingwei ZHU
;
Hongyuan CUI
;
Danian TANG
;
Qi AN
;
Jifang MEN
;
Junmin WEI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Nutritional risk;
Malnutrition;
Elderly patients;
Malignant tumor;
Abdominal surgery;
Pancreas cancer
- From:
Chinese Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2011;19(6):364-367
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
ObjectiveTo investigate the prevalence of nutritional risk and malnutrition among hospitalized elderly abdominal surgical patients with malignant tumors.MethodsTotally 269 elderly patents ( ≥ 65 years) with malignant tumor who were hospitalized in our department of abdominal surgery from December 2009 to November 2010 were consecutively enrolled.Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 ( NRS 2002 ) was performed on the next morning after admission.Body mass index (BMI) lower than 18.5 kg/m2 was considered as malnutrition.Results The NRS 2002 was completed in all the 269 enrolled patients.The overall prevalence of malnutrition was 30.1％ (81/269) ; more specifically,37.5％ (21/56) among geriatric patients ( ≥80 years) and 17.6％ (43/245) among the other age groups (P =0.001 ).The overall rate of nutrition risk was 38.3％ (103/269) ; more specifically,57.1％ (32/56) among the geriatric patients and 29.3％ (72/245) among the other age groups (P ＜0.001 ).The rate of nutrition risk in patients with pancreas cancer was 58.3％,which was higher than other elderly patients; on the contrary,and the rate of nutrition risk in the patients with colorectal cancer was relatively lower.ConclusionThe rates of nutrition risk and malnutrition in hospitalized elderly abdominal surgical patients ( ≥ 65years) with malignant tumor are relatively higher than other age groups,especially among the geriatric patients.
