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Clin Nutr ; 39(7): 2192-2201, 2020 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31669003

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Optimal nutritional support during the acute phase of critical illness remains controversial. We hypothesized that patients with low skeletal muscle area and -density may specifically benefit from early high protein intake. Aim of the present study was to determine the association between early protein intake (day 2-4) and mortality in critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients with normal skeletal muscle area, low skeletal muscle area, or combined low skeletal muscle area and -density. METHODS: Retrospective database study in mechanically ventilated, adult critically ill patients with an abdominal CT-scan suitable for skeletal muscle assessment around ICU admission, admitted from January 2004 to January 2016 (n = 739). Patients received protocolized nutrition with protein target 1.2-1.5 g/kg/day. Skeletal muscle area and -density were assessed on abdominal CT-scans at the 3rd lumbar vertebra level using previously defined cut-offs. RESULTS: Of 739 included patients (mean age 58 years, 483 male (65%), APACHE II score 23), 294 (40%) were admitted with normal skeletal muscle area and 445 (60%) with low skeletal muscle area. Two hundred (45% of the low skeletal muscle area group) had combined low skeletal muscle area and -density. In the normal skeletal muscle area group, no significant associations were found. In the low skeletal muscle area group, higher early protein intake was associated with lower 60-day mortality (adjusted hazard ratio (HR) per 0.1 g/kg/day 0.82, 95%CI 0.73-0.94) and lower 6-month mortality (HR 0.88, 95%CI 0.79-0.98). Similar associations were found in the combined low skeletal muscle area and -density subgroup (HR 0.76, 95%CI 0.64-0.90 for 60-day mortality and HR 0.80, 95%CI 0.68-0.93 for 6-month mortality). CONCLUSIONS: Early high protein intake is associated with lower mortality in critically ill patients with low skeletal muscle area and -density, but not in patients with normal skeletal muscle area on admission. These findings may be a further step to personalized nutrition, although randomized studies are needed to assess causality.


Subject(s)
Body Composition , Diet, High-Protein , Malnutrition/diet therapy , Muscle, Skeletal/diagnostic imaging , Nutritional Status , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Critical Illness , Databases, Factual , Diet, High-Protein/adverse effects , Diet, High-Protein/mortality , Female , Hospital Mortality , Humans , Intensive Care Units , Male , Malnutrition/diagnostic imaging , Malnutrition/mortality , Malnutrition/physiopathology , Middle Aged , Muscle, Skeletal/physiopathology , Predictive Value of Tests , Prognosis , Respiration, Artificial , Retrospective Studies , Risk Assessment , Risk Factors , Time Factors
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Curr Opin Crit Care ; 24(4): 241-247, 2018 08.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29847342

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To help guide metabolic support in critical care, an understanding of patients' nutritional status and risk is important. Several methods to monitor lean body mass are increasingly used in the ICU and knowledge about their advantages and limitations is essential. RECENT FINDINGS: Computed tomography scan analysis, musculoskeletal ultrasound, and bioelectrical impedance analysis are emerging as powerful clinical tools to monitor lean body mass during ICU stay. Accuracy, expertise, ease of use at the bedside, and costs are important factors which play a role in determining which method is most suitable. Exciting new research provides an insight into not only quantitative measurements, but also qualitative measurements of lean body mass, such as infiltration of adipose tissue and intramuscular glycogen storage. SUMMARY: Methods to monitor lean body mass in the ICU are under constant development, improving upon bedside usability and offering new modalities to measure. This provides clinicians with valuable markers with which to identify patients at high nutritional risk and to evaluate metabolic support during critical illness.


Subject(s)
Critical Care , Critical Illness/therapy , Malnutrition/diagnosis , Muscle, Skeletal/diagnostic imaging , Muscular Atrophy/diagnostic imaging , Nutritional Status/physiology , Point-of-Care Testing , Body Composition , Electric Impedance , Humans , Malnutrition/physiopathology , Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism , Muscular Atrophy/physiopathology , Nutrition Assessment , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Ultrasonography
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Eur J Clin Nutr ; 72(7): 1019-1025, 2018 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29748659

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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: A low bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA)-derived phase angle (PA) predicts morbidity and mortality in different patient groups. An association between PA and long-term mortality in ICU patients has not been demonstrated before. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether PA on ICU admission independently predicts 90-day mortality. SUBJECTS/ METHODS: This prospective observational study was performed in a mixed university ICU. BIA was performed in 196 patients within 24 h of ICU admission. To test the independent association between PA and 90-day mortality, logistic regression analysis was performed using the APACHE IV predicted mortality as confounder. The optimal cutoff value of PA for mortality prediction was determined by ROC curve analysis. Using this cutoff value, patients were categorized into low or normal PA group and the association with 90-day mortality was tested again. RESULTS: The PA of survivors was higher than of the non-survivors (5.0° ± 1.3° vs. 4.1° ± 1.2°, p < 0.001). The area under the ROC curve of PA for 90-day mortality was 0.70 (CI 0.59-0.80). PA was associated with 90-day mortality (OR = 0.56, CI: 0.38-0.77, p = 0.001) on univariate logistic regression analysis and also after adjusting for BMI, gender, age, and APACHE IV on multivariable logistic regression (OR = 0.65, CI: 0.44-0.96, p = 0.031). A PA < 4.8° was an independent predictor of 90-day mortality (adjusted OR = 3.65, CI: 1.34-9.93, p = 0.011). CONCLUSIONS: Phase angle at ICU admission is an independent predictor of 90-day mortality. This biological marker can aid in long-term mortality risk assessment of critically ill patients.


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Body Composition , Critical Care , Critical Illness/mortality , Hospitalization , Intensive Care Units , APACHE , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Area Under Curve , Critical Illness/therapy , Electric Impedance , Female , Humans , Logistic Models , Male , Middle Aged , Prospective Studies , ROC Curve , Risk Assessment
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World J Surg ; 42(11): 3821, 2018 11.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29564517

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The article title for this Letter to the Editor is correct as reflected here. The original article has been corrected.

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Crit Care ; 20(1): 386, 2016 12 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27903267

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BACKGROUND: Muscle quantity at intensive care unit (ICU) admission has been independently associated with mortality. In addition to quantity, muscle quality may be important for survival. Muscle quality is influenced by fatty infiltration or myosteatosis, which can be assessed on computed tomography (CT) scans by analysing skeletal muscle density (SMD) and the amount of intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT). We investigated whether CT-derived low skeletal muscle quality at ICU admission is independently associated with 6-month mortality and other clinical outcomes. METHODS: This retrospective study included 491 mechanically ventilated critically ill adult patients with a CT scan of the abdomen made 1 day before to 4 days after ICU admission. Cox regression analysis was used to determine the association between SMD or IMAT and 6-month mortality, with adjustments for Acute Physiological, Age, and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score, body mass index (BMI), and skeletal muscle area. Logistic and linear regression analyses were used for other clinical outcomes. RESULTS: Mean APACHE II score was 24 ± 8 and 6-month mortality was 35.6%. Non-survivors had a lower SMD (25.1 vs. 31.4 Hounsfield Units (HU); p < 0.001), and more IMAT (17.1 vs. 13.3 cm2; p = 0.004). Higher SMD was associated with a lower 6-month mortality (hazard ratio (HR) per 10 HU, 0.640; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.552-0.742; p < 0.001), and also after correction for APACHE II score, BMI, and skeletal muscle area (HR, 0.774; 95% CI, 0.643-0.931; p = 0.006). Higher IMAT was not significantly associated with higher 6-month mortality after adjustment for confounders. A 10 HU increase in SMD was associated with a 14% shorter hospital length of stay. CONCLUSIONS: Low skeletal muscle quality at ICU admission, as assessed by CT-derived skeletal muscle density, is independently associated with higher 6-month mortality in mechanically ventilated patients. Thus, muscle quality as well as muscle quantity are prognostic factors in the ICU. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Retrospectively registered (initial release on 06/23/2016) at ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02817646 .


Subject(s)
Abdominal Wall/physiopathology , Critical Illness/mortality , Muscle, Skeletal/physiopathology , Respiration, Artificial/mortality , Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods , APACHE , Adult , Aged , Critical Illness/epidemiology , Humans , Intensive Care Units/organization & administration , Intensive Care Units/statistics & numerical data , Length of Stay , Male , Middle Aged , Proportional Hazards Models , Respiration, Artificial/statistics & numerical data , Retrospective Studies , Statistics, Nonparametric , Tomography, X-Ray Computed/statistics & numerical data
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Crit Care ; 18(6): 701, 2014 Dec 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25499096

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INTRODUCTION: Early protein and energy feeding in critically ill patients is heavily debated and early protein feeding hardly studied. METHODS: A prospective database with mixed medical-surgical critically ill patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation (>72 hours) and measured energy expenditure was used in this study. Logistic regression analysis was used to analyse the relation between admission day-4 protein intake group (with cutoffs 0.8, 1.0, and 1.2 g/kg), energy overfeeding (ratio energy intake/measured energy expenditure > 1.1), and admission diagnosis of sepsis with hospital mortality after adjustment for APACHE II (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II) score. RESULTS: A total of 843 patients were included. Of these, 117 had sepsis. Of the 736 non-septic patients 307 were overfed. Mean day-4 protein intake was 1.0 g/kg pre-admission weight per day and hospital mortality was 36%. In the total cohort, day-4 protein intake group (odds ratio (OR) 0.85; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.73 to 0.99; P = 0.047), energy overfeeding (OR 1.62; 95%CI 1.07 to 2.44; P = 0.022), and sepsis (OR 1.77; 95%CI 1.18 to 2.65; P = 0.005) were independent risk factors for mortality besides APACHE II score. In patients with sepsis or energy overfeeding, day-4 protein intake was not associated with mortality. For non-septic, non-overfed patients (n = 419), mortality decreased with higher protein intake group: 37% for < 0.8 g/kg, 35% for 0.8 to 1.0 g/kg, 27% for 1.0 to 1.2 g/kg, and 19% for ≥ 1.2 g/kg (P = 0.033). For these, a protein intake level of ≥ 1.2 g/kg was significantly associated with lower mortality (OR 0.42, 95%CI 0.21 to 0.83, P = 0.013). CONCLUSIONS: In non-septic critically ill patients, early high protein intake was associated with lower mortality and early energy overfeeding with higher mortality. In septic patients early high protein intake had no beneficial effect on mortality.


Subject(s)
Critical Illness/mortality , Dietary Proteins/administration & dosage , Energy Intake , Hospital Mortality/trends , Overnutrition/mortality , Respiration, Artificial/mortality , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Cohort Studies , Critical Illness/therapy , Dietary Proteins/metabolism , Energy Intake/physiology , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Overnutrition/metabolism , Prospective Studies , Respiration, Artificial/trends
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Crit Care ; 18(2): R12, 2014 Jan 13.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24410863

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INTRODUCTION: Higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with lower mortality in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. However, it is yet unclear which body component is responsible for this relationship. METHODS: This retrospective analysis in 240 mechanically ventilated critically ill patients included adult patients in whom a computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen was made on clinical indication between 1 day before and 4 days after admission to the intensive care unit. CT scans were analyzed at the L3 level for skeletal muscle area, expressed as square centimeters. Cutoff values were defined by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis: 110 cm2 for females and 170 cm2 for males. Backward stepwise regression analysis was used to evaluate low-muscle area in relation to hospital mortality, with low-muscle area, sex, BMI, Acute Physiologic and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score, and diagnosis category as independent variables. RESULTS: This study included 240 patients, 94 female and 146 male patients. Mean age was 57 years; mean BMI, 25.6 kg/m2. Muscle area for females was significantly lower than that for males (102 ± 23 cm2 versus 158 ± 33 cm2; P < 0.001). Low-muscle area was observed in 63% of patients for both females and males. Mortality was 29%, significantly higher in females than in males (37% versus 23%; P = 0.028). Low-muscle area was associated with higher mortality compared with normal-muscle area in females (47.5% versus 20%; P = 0.008) and in males (32.3% versus 7.5%; P < 0.001). Independent predictive factors for mortality were low-muscle area, sex, and APACHE II score, whereas BMI and admission diagnosis were not. Odds ratio for low-muscle area was 4.3 (95% confidence interval, 2.0 to 9.0, P < 0.001). When applying sex-specific cutoffs to all patients, muscle mass appeared as primary predictor, not sex. CONCLUSIONS: Low skeletal muscle area, as assessed by CT scan during the early stage of critical illness, is a risk factor for mortality in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients, independent of sex and APACHE II score. Further analysis suggests muscle mass as primary predictor, not sex. BMI is not an independent predictor of mortality when muscle area is accounted for.


Subject(s)
Critical Illness/mortality , Critical Illness/therapy , Muscle, Skeletal/diagnostic imaging , Respiration, Artificial/mortality , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Respiration, Artificial/trends , Retrospective Studies , Risk Factors , Survival Rate/trends , Tomography, X-Ray Computed/trends
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