Gislaine Aparecida Ozorio, Lia Mara Kauchi Ribeiro, Bárbara Chaves Santos, Wânnia Ferreira de Sousa Bruzaca, Gabriela Del Gallo Vieira da Rocha, Luani Maria da Fonseca Marchi, Fernando Magri Santos, Maria Manuela Ferreira Alves de Almeida, Marco Aurélio Vamondes Kulcsar, Ulysses Ribeiro Junior, Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia, Dan Linetzky Waitzberg
OBJECTIVES: The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria establish a diagnosis of malnutrition based on the presence of at least one phenotypic and one etiologic criterion. This study aimed to assess the concurrent and predictive validity of the GLIM criteria in hospitalized cancer patients. METHODS: This is an observational retrospective study, including 885 cancer patients, ages >18 y, admitted to a medical oncology inpatient unit between 2019 and 2020...
August 16, 2023: Nutrition