Accuracy of isolated nutrition indicators in diagnosing malnutrition and their prognostic value to predict death in patients with gastric and colorectal cancer: A prospective study.
Iasmin Matias de SousaFlavia Moraes SilvaAna Lúcia Miranda de CarvalhoIlanna Marques Gomes da RochaAna Paula Trussardi FayhPublished in: JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition (2021)
The nutrition indicators are not accurate in diagnosing malnutrition, whereas PG-SGA and low CC could predict mortality in gastric and colorectal cancer patients. Thus, CC should be combined with PG-SGA in nutrition assessments.