Zhimin Yuan, Chunjie Jiang, Guojuan Lao, Yan Zhang, Chunying Wang, Yingying Zhu, Chaogang Chen, Jianmin Ran, Chengzhi Wang, Ping Zhu
Malnutrition significantly hampers wound healing processes. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) and Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) in diagnosing malnutrition and predicting wound healing in patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFU). GLIM criteria were evaluated for sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP), positive predictive value (PPV), negative PV (NPV), and kappa (κ) against SGA as the reference. Modified Poisson regression model and the DeLong test investigated the association between malnutrition and non-healing ulcers over six months...
April 18, 2024: British Journal of Nutrition