ABSTRACT
Objective To study the nutritional risks in elderly patients with prostate cancer and explore its related factors.Methods 346 elderly patients with prostate cancer in Wuhan area from May 2013 to May 2014 were chosen as the objects in this study.Nutritional risk screening 2002 was used to evaluate nutritional risk.The sleep quality,anxiety,lower urinary tract symptoms,differentiation and other data of patients were collected.The influencing factors for nutritional risk in the patients were analyzed.Results The ratio of nutritional risk in elderly advanced prostate cancer patients was 35.3％ (122/346).The nutritional risk was increased with age (P＜0.05).The prostate cancer patients with nutritional risk had a higher international prostate symptom score (IPSS) (P＜ 0.05).Monovariate factor analysis showed that sleep quality,operation,pathology staging,radiotherapy,chemotherapy,lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) were the impact factors for nutritional status in elderly patients with prostate cancer (P＜0.05).Logistic regression analysis showed that age (OR=0.29),sleep quality (OR=0.25) were the protective factors for the nutritional status,while surgery (OR=12.67),pathological staging (OR=1.65),radiotherapy (OR=2.65),SPSS (OR=1.55),chemotherapy (OR=1.85) were the risk factors for nutritional status (P＜ 0.05).Conclusions The incidence of nutritional risk is high in elderly prostate cancer patients.Age,sleep quality are the protective factors,and operation,pathology staging,SPSS,chemotherapy,and radiotherapy are the risk factors for nutritional status.