The application of Mini-Nutritional Assessment in nutritional assessment in middle-aged women with diabetes / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the application value of the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) in assessing the nutritional status in middle-aged women with diabetes.Methods Using the normal range of traditional nutritional index as the reference standard,two hundred and forty middle-aged women with diabetes were recruited and their nutritional status were assessed by MNA and laboratory test (including PAB,Fib,TLC,CHOL),respectively.Finally,the results were analyzed and compared.Results The correlation coefficient of MNA value and BMI、PAB,Hb,TLC,CHOL were 0.571,0.614,0.781,0.568,0.218.MNA had good correlations with several traditional laboratory indicators regarding with nutritional status,with signifi-cant difference.In this study,the results of investigation by MNA showed thatthe rates of malnutrition,potential malnutrition,and normal nutritional were 30％(72 cases),65％(156 cases),and 5％(12 cases),respectively.The sensitivity and specificity of MNA were 96.1％ and 98.2％ respectively.Laboratory testing resuitsmalnutrition and normal nutrition were 31％ (74 cases) and 4％ (10 cases).Kappa test(Kappa=0.922)the results of MNA and laboratory testing had strong consistency.Conclusions MNA is feasible in assessing nutritional status in the domestic middle-aged women with diabetes.