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Table 1.

Summary of available studies regarding malnutrition in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms

Author	No patients	Patient groups	Score used	Malnutrition definition	Results	BMI ≤ 20
Qureshi et al[30]	161	All GEP-NEN outpatients	MUST	MUST ≥ 1	MUST 1: 9.8%	9.9%
Qureshi et al[30]	161	All GEP-NEN outpatients	MUST	MUST ≥ 1	MUST ≥ 2: 7.7%	9.9%
Robbins et al[27]	183	All GEP-NEN outpatients	MUST	MUST ≥ 1	MUST 1: 8.7%	4.9%
Robbins et al[27]	183	All GEP-NEN outpatients	MUST	MUST ≥ 1	MUST ≥ 2: 4.9%	4.9%
Borre et al[26]	186	All NEN outpatients	NRS	NRS ≥ 3	NRS ≥ 3: 38%	12%
Maasberg et al[29]	203	NEN inpatients (177)	SGA and NRS	SGA B or C	SGA B or C: 21%	N/A
Maasberg et al[29]	203	NEN outpatients (26)	SGA and NRS	NRS ≥ 3	NRS ≥ 3: 25%	N/A
Gallo et al[15]	37	All NEN outpatients	BMI		No malnourished patients	0
Glazer et al[31]	22096	Abdominal NEN	ICD-9 codes		8% malnourished	N/A

Summary of studies reporting malnutrition, used screening tool, cut-off for malnutrition, results and body mass index scores in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms. GEP-NEN: Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms; MUST: Malnutrition universal screening tool; NRS: Nutritional risk screening; SGA: Subjective global assessment; BMI: Body mass index; ICD: International classification of diseases.