Table 2.
Subjective global assessment and adductor pollicis muscle thickness (dominant hand)
| Variables | SGA | APMT | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No nutritional risk | With nutritional risk | p value | No nutritional risk > 6.5mm* | With nutritional risk < 6.5mm* | p value | |
| N = 52 | N = 31 | N = 55 | N = 28 | |||
| Age (years) | ||||||
| > 60 | 34 (53.1) | 30 (45.9) | 38 (59.4) | 26 (40.5) | ||
| 18 - 59 | 18 (94.7) | 01 (5.3) | 0.003 | 17 (89.5) | 02 (10.5) | 0.03 |
| Gender | ||||||
| Female | 14 (26.9) | 17 (54.8) | 13 (23.6) | 18 (64.3) | 0.001 | |
| Male | 38 (73.1) | 14 (45.2) | 0.011 | 42 (76.4) | 10 (35.7) | |
| BMI (Lipschitz(17); WHO(18)) | ||||||
| Malnourished | 1 (1.9) | 14(15.2) | 4 (7.3) | 11 (39.3) | ||
| Eutrophic | 13(25.2) | 10 (32.3) | 0.001† | 14 (25.5) | 9 (32.1) | 0.001† |
| Overweight | 38 (73.1) | 7 (22.6) | 37 (67.3) | 8 (28.6) | ||
| CAD | 14 (29.8) | 7 (22.6) | 0.483 | 18 (36) | 3 (10.7) | 0.016 |
| SAH | 32 (69.6) | 21 (67.7) | 0.865 | 31 (63.3) | 22 (78.6) | 0.163 |
| DM | 13 (28.3) | 11 (35.5) | 0.502 | 12 (24.5) | 12 (42.9) | 0.094 |
| Dyslipidemia | 14 (30.4) | 5 (16.1) | 0.153 | 12 (24.5) | 7 (25) | 0.96 |
| CHF | 1 (2.2) | 9 (29) | 0.001 | 1 (2) | 9 (32.1) | 0.001 |
| Stroke | 4 (58.7) | 6 (19.4) | 0.172 | 5 (10.2) | 5 (17.9) | 0.337 |
| Other pathologies | 14 (30.4) | 9 (29) | 0.895 | 14 (28.6) | 9 (32.1) | 0.742 |
| Death | 1 (25) | 3 (75) | 0.127 | 2 (3.8) | 2 (7.1) | 0.519 |
| Time in ICU** | 3 (2 - 5.75) | 3.5 (2 - 6) | 0.845 | 4 (3 - 6) | 3 (2 - 4.77) | 0.183 |
| Hospitalization time** | 7 (5 - 9.8) | 9 (4 - 14) | 0.236 | 8 (6 - 13) | 7 (4 - 10) | 0.411 |
SGA - subjective global assessment; APMT - adductor pollicis muscle thickness; BMI - body mass index; DAC - coronary artery disease; SAH - systemic arterial hypertension; DM - diabetes mellitus; CHF - congestive heart failure; ICU - intensive care unit.
*
Cutoff point suggested for this population(15);
†
Pearson chi square test;
**
median and interquartile range, Mann-Whitney U-test. The results expressed as number (percentage).