TABLE 2.
Prevalence of etiologic and phenotypic GLIM criteria among patients with chronic pancreatitis.
| No malnutrition (n = 24) | Moderate malnutrition (n = 14) | Severe malnutrition (n = 28) | ||
| Etiologic criteria | p-value$ | |||
| Reduced food intake or assimilation | ||||
| ≤50% of energy requirements for longer than 1 week | 3 (13) | 3 (21) | 16 (57) | 0.002 |
| Any reduction for longer than 2 weeks | 3 (13) | 2 (14) | 13 (46) | 0.012 |
| Chronic gastrointestinal condition adversely impacting food assimilation or absorption | 9 (38) | 7 (50) | 12 (43) | 0.727 |
| Disease burden/inflammation | ||||
| Acute disease/injury | 2 (8) | 3 (21) | 9 (32) | 0.116 |
| Chronic disease-related | 24 (100) | 14 (100) | 28 (100) | – |
| Phenotypic criteria | p-value‡ | |||
| Low body mass index, n (%)1 | 0.085 | |||
| N/A | 24 (100) | 14 (100) | 19 (68) | |
| Moderate | – | – | 5 (18) | |
| Severe | – | – | 4 (14) | |
| Weight loss, n (%)2 | <0.001 | |||
| N/A | 24 (100) | 10 (71) | 6 (21) | |
| Moderate | – | 4 (29) | 2 (7) | |
| Severe | – | – | 20 (71) | |
| Reduced muscle mass, n (%)3 | <0.001 | |||
| N/A | 24 (100) | 2 (14) | 5 (18) | |
| Moderate | – | 12 (86) | 3 (11) | |
| Severe | – | – | 20 (71) |
$Differences between groups of nutritional status were tested using Chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test, respectively.
‡Differences between patients with moderate and severe malnutrition were tested using Fisher’s exact test.
1Moderate: <20 kg/m2 if age >70 years or 22 kg/m2 if age ≥70 years; severe: <18.5 kg/m2 if age >70 years or 20 kg/m2 if age ≥70 years.
2Moderate: 5–10% within the past 6 months, or 10–20% beyond 6 months; severe: >10% within the past 6 months, or >20% beyond 6 months.
3Moderate: Skeletal muscle mass index <8.97 kg/m2 if male or, <6.68 kg/m2 if female; severe: Skeletal muscle mass index <8.14 kg/m2 if male, or <5.86 kg/m2.