Table 4.
Sensitivity and specificity of Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, Malnutrition Screening Tool, and Nutritional Risk Index in detecting sarcopenia, myosteatosis, and cancer cachexia
| Sarcopenia | Myosteatosis | Pre‐cachexia | Cancer cachexia | Any of these four conditions | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sen (%) | Spec (%) | TA (%) | Sen (%) | Spec (%) | TA (%) | Sen (%) | Spec (%) | TA (%) | Sen (%) | Spec (%) | TA (%) | Sen (%) | Spec (%) | TA (%) | |
| MUST score ≥ 1 | 45.3 | 60.7 | 54.3 | 48.0 | 62.9 | 56.1 | 45.8 | 56.5 | 56.0 | 72.8 | 81.8 | 78.1 | 51.3 | 82.6 | 61.0 |
| MUST score ≥ 2 | 26.6 | 79.4 | 57.8 | 27.8 | 80.4 | 56.5 | 20.8 | 73.5 | 71.0 | 52.2 | 98.3 | 79.2 | 32.5 | 99.6 | 53.9 |
| MST score ≥ 1 | 52.6 | 47.0 | 49.3 | 59.8 | 52.8 | 56.0 | 100.0 | 49.0 | 51.4 | 73.1 | 63.2 | 67.3 | 59.3 | 64.7 | 61.0 |
| MST score ≥ 2 | 39.4 | 56.6 | 49.6 | 49.8 | 65.9 | 58.6 | 75.0 | 59.6 | 60.3 | 63.5 | 74.5 | 69.9 | 48.3 | 74.6 | 56.4 |
| MST score ≥ 3 | 17.2 | 81.2 | 54.9 | 21.7 | 84.9 | 56.1 | 16.7 | 81.2 | 78.2 | 35.9 | 94.6 | 70.2 | 23.0 | 92.9 | 44.6 |
| NRI score < 100 | 95.1 | 13.5 | 48.4 | 93.4 | 11.3 | 49.3 | 95.0 | 10.1 | 13.6 | 97.6 | 16.4 | 53.2 | 94.3 | 21.9 | 74.7 |
| NRI score < 97.5 | 85.8 | 25.1 | 51.0 | 88.6 | 27.5 | 55.8 | 95.0 | 21.2 | 24.3 | 92.9 | 32.1 | 59.7 | 86.7 | 41.1 | 74.4 |
| NRI score < 83.5 | 21.2 | 83.2 | 56.7 | 22.4 | 85.3 | 56.2 | 25.0 | 81.4 | 79.0 | 31.2 | 92.1 | 64.5 | 22.4 | 92.1 | 41.2 |
MST, Malnutrition Screening Tool; MUST, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool; NRI, Nutritional Risk Index; Sen, sensitivity; spec, specificity; TA, total accuracy. The figures for highest total accuracy are denoted in bold.