| BDHQ | Brief-type self-administered diet history questionnaire |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| CCI | Charlson Comorbidity Index |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CONUT | Controlling Nutritional Status |
| EPV | Events per variable |
| GLIM | Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition |
| GNRI | Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index |
| ICC | Intraclass correlation coefficient |
| IQR | Interquartile range |
| MNA | Mini Nutritional Assessment |
| OR | Odds ratio |
| PNI | Prognostic Nutritional Index |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| STROBE | Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology |
| VIF | Variance inflation factor |