Correlation of Nutritional Indices on Admission to the Coronary Intensive Care Unit with the Development of Delirium.
Yurina SugitaTetsuro MiyazakiKazunori ShimadaMegumi ShimizuMitsuhiro KunimotoShohei OuchiTatsuro AikawaTomoyasu KadoguchiYuko KawaguchiTomoyuki ShiozawaKiyoshi TakasuMasaru HikiShuhei TakahashiKatsuhiko SumiyoshiHiroshi IwataHiroyuki DaidaPublished in: Nutrients (2018)
A marked correlation exists between the nutritional index on admission, especially PNI and CONUT, and the development of delirium in patients with acute cardiovascular diseases, suggesting that malnutrition assessment upon admission could help identify patients at high risk of developing delirium.