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. 2021 Feb 27;13(3):778. doi: 10.3390/nu13030778

Table 1.

Nutritional assessment items used for adult patients with dysphagia.

Broad Category Subcategory Number of Articles Disease, (n) First Author Year
Body mass index Body mass index 9 [35,36,41,42,43,44,45,46,47] Stroke (5), HNC (2), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (2), Pulmonary disease (2), Cardiovascular disease (2), Firearm injury (2), Cervical trauma (2),
Diabetes mellitus (2), Dyslipidemia (2), Hypertension (2), Machado–Joseph disease (2), Meyge’s syndrome (2), Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome (2), Parkinson’s disease (2), Alzheimer’s disease (2), Dementia, Esophageal cancer, Brain tumor, Myelitis, Huntington’s disease,
Progressive supranuclear palsy, Trigeminal neuropathy, Traumatic brain injury, Presbyphagia
da Silva AF, Barni GC 2020
Maeda K, Ikenaga Y 2017
Toh Yoon EW, Nakadate A 2016
Ortega O 2015
Lecleire S 2006
Jacobsson C 1997
Nutritional screening tool MNA-SF 4 [39,42,45,48] Stroke Nakazawa Y 2020
Vilardell N, Maeda K 2017
Ortega O 2015
Anthropometric measurements Weight 5 [37,38,46,49,50] Esophageal cancer (2), Stroke, HNC, Lung cancer Kim J 2018
Smith ZL 2017
Wang YJ 2014
Lecleire S 2006
Elmståhl S 1999
TSFT 1 [47] Stroke, brain tumor Jacobsson C 1997
MAMC 1 [47] Stroke, brain tumor Jacobsson C 1997
Body composition SMM (BIA) 1 [48] Nakazawa Y 2020
Percent body fat 1 [50] Stroke Elmståhl S 1999
Lean body mass 1 [50] Stroke Elmståhl S 1999
Dietary assessment Food intake level 2 [51,52] Stroke, Brain trauma, Encephalitis, Central pontine myelinolysis, Neoplasm Bülow M 2008
Bartolome G 1997
Food Frequency Questionnaire 1 [41] Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Machado–Joseph disease, Meyge’s syndrome, Progressive supranuclear palsy, Stroke,
Trigeminal neuropathy, Myelitis, Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome, Firearm injury, Cervical trauma, Presbyphagia, Diabetes mellitus, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, Cardiovascular disease
Barni GC 2020
Energy intake 1 [42] Maeda K 2017
Period to meal resumption and dietary form 1 [53] Kishimoto N 2016
Daily food intake 1 [40] Stroke Masiero, S 2008
Others MNA 1 [54] Alzheimer’s Disease Tang Y 2017
O-PNI 1 [43] Toh Yoon EW 2016

Abbreviations: HNC, head and neck cancer; MNA-SF, Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form; MNA, Mini Nutritional Assessment; TSFT, Triceps skinfolds thickness; MAMC, mid-arm muscle circumference (MAMC = mid-upper arm circumference − π × TSFT); SMM, skeletal muscle mass; BIA, bioelectric impedance analysis; O-PNI, Onodera’s Prognostic Nutritional Index.