Handgrip strength: Best practice for a rapid nutrition screening and risk stratification in male patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis, a classification and regression tree analysis study.
Varsha ShasthryPuja Bhatia KapoorHarshita TripathiGuresh KumarYogendra Kumar JoshiJaya BenjaminPublished in: Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (2022)
HGS is a reliable tool for rapid NS. HGS < 22 kg suggests a high risk for severe malnutrition and is strongly associated with short-term mortality in male patients with ALC.