Nutritional risk screening in elderly inpatients with hepatobiliary diseases / 中华临床营养杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the nutritional risk,malnutrition rate,and nutritional support in elderly inpafients with hepatobiliary diseases.Methods Totally 156 eldedy inpatients(≥65 years)with hepatobiliary diseases were consecutively enrolled.Nutritional Risk Screening 2002(NRS 2002)was applied to screen nutritional risks on the next morning after admission and two weeks after admission or on the discharge day.Results Of 156 enrolled patients,151 patients(96.8%)completed the NRS 2002 screening.The nutrition risk and malnutrition rate were 36.9%(57/156)and 26.2%(41/156),respectively.The nutrition risk and malnutrition rate were significantly higher in patients with a hospital stay longer than 2 weeks than those with a hospital stay less than 2 weeks(49.6%and 36.7% vs.37.3%and 21.4%,respectively)(both P<0.05).In addition,100 patients(64.1%)with nutrition risk received nutrition support and 27 patients(17.3%)without nutrition risk received nutrition support.Among patients who had undergone major abdominal surgeries,137 patients(87.9%)with nutrition risk received nutrition support while 57 patients(36.8%)without nutrition risk received nutrition support.Conclusions NRS 2002 is a feasible nutritional risk screening tool for elderly inpatients with hepatobiliary diseases.A hospital stay more than 2 weeks the morbidity of the nutritional risk and malnutrition rate increased.Seems the value of nutritional support has not been well recognized in the department of hepatobiliary surgery,inappropriate application of nutritional support still exists.