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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 Sep 14;71(11):3367–3375. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18590

Table 2:

6-month clinical outcomes stratified by nutritional status

Outcome, n (%) Overall, N = 231 Malnutrition Absent (MNA-SF Score > 11), N = 134 Malnutrition Present (MNA-SF Score ≤ 11), N = 97 P-value
Composite outcome 64 (27.7%) 29 (21.6%) 35 (36.1%) 0.016
Mortality 4 (1.7%) 2 (1.5%) 2 (2.1%) 0.99
All-cause hospitalization 62 (26.8%) 29 (21.6%) 33 (34.0%) 0.036
Cause of Hospitalization 0.070
 HF-related 17 (7.4%) 7 (5.2%) 10 (10.3%)
 Non-HF, CV related 10 (4.3%) 7 (5.2%) 3 (3.1%)
 Non-CV related 35 (15.2%) 15 (11.2%) 20 (20.6%)
 Not hospitalized 169 (73.2%) 105 (78.4%) 64 (66.0%)

HF: Heart Failure; CV: Cardiovascular; MNA-SF: Mini-Nutritional Assessment Short Form