The comparison of two methods to evaluate malnutrition / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the incidence of malnutrition in patients with stomach cancer,intestinal obstruction,colon and rectal cancer by using two assessments.Methods Inpatients were consecutively recorded,to diagnose malnutrition,one way was using BMI＜18.5 kg/m2,another one was three variablesweight loss of NRS2002,and then compare its incidence.Results A total of 226 patients were recruited.Malnutrition rate which was 11.06％ by using BMI,was lower than that using NRS2002 (14.60％).Patients who accepted adequate nutrition support was 7.96％,no-adequate nutrition support was 17.26％,and extremely no-adequate nutrition support accounted for 5.31％.Conclusion Adopting NRS2002 to diagnose malnutrition is worthy to promote.