Table 3.
Nutritional status and physical state of EC patients managed by NGT feeding and ONS
| Variable | NGT group (n = 40) |
ONS group (n = 58) |
t | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NRS2002 score, mean ± SD | Before EN | 3.65 ± 0.62 | 3.66 ± 0.58 | − 0.04 | 0.97 |
| After EN | 1.90 ± 0.50 | 2.43 ± 0.70 | − 4.38 | 0.00* | |
| PG-SGA score, mean ± SD | Before EN | 11.50 ± 2.22 | 10.93 ± 2.53 | 1.15 | 0.25 |
| After EN | 7.50 ± 1.92 | 8.53 ± 2.64 | − 2.24 | 0.03* | |
| PG-SGA grade, Grade B/C | Before EN | 6/34 | 15/43 | 1.66 | 0.20 |
| After EN | 28/12 | 30/28 | 3.3 | 0.07 | |
| KPS score, mean ± SD | Before EN | 87.75 ± 8.91 | 90.17 ± 7.37 | − 1.45 | 0.15 |
| After EN | 65.25 ± 5.06 | 61.55 ± 5.23 | 3.51 | 0.00* |
EC, esophageal cancer; EN, enteral nutrition; NRS2002, Nutritional Risk Screening 2002; PG-SGA, Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment; KPS, Karnofsky Performance Status; SD, standard deviation; NGT, nasogastric tube; ONS, oral nutritional supplementation; *, for P < 0.05