Table 4.
Association between nutritional status and presence of sarcopenia on admission.
| Tool | Outcome | No Sarcopenia n (%) |
Sarcopenia n (%) |
OR (95% CI) | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLIM | No malnutrition | 50 (61.0) | 32 (39.0) | 1 | |
| Malnutrition | 25 (35.7) | 45 (64.3) | 2.7 (1.4–4.9) | 0.0029 | |
| MUST | Low risk | 60 (65.2) | 32 (34.8) | 1 | |
| Medium risk | 8 (34.8) | 15 (65.2) | 0.6 (0.3–1.2) | 0.459 | |
| High risk | 7 (18.9) | 30 (81.1) | 2.5 (1.3–3.6) | 0.0068 | |
| SGA | Well nourished | 9 (60.0) | 6 (40.0) | 1 | |
| Moderately malnourished | 44 (51.8) | 41 (48.2) | 1.4 (0.3–4.1) | 0.516 | |
| Severely malnourished | 22 (42.3) | 30 (57.7) | 2.7 (0.2–9.4) | 0.414 | |
| NRS-2002 | Low risk | 53 (53.5) | 46 (46.5) | 1 | |
| Medium risk | 12 (57.1) | 9 (42.9) | 0.1 (0.0–1.1) | 0.059 | |
| High risk | 16 (47.0) | 18 (53.0) | 1.2 (0.2–5.8) | 0.835 |
Incidence and odds ratio (OR; 95% confidence interval, CI), adjusted for age, gender, and education, between Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) diagnosis of malnutrition or nutritional screening tools and presence of sarcopenia. MUST, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool; SGA, Subjective Global Assessment; NRS-2002, Nutritional Risk Screening 2002. Bold: statistically significant.