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Low BMI Demonstrates Satisfactory Specificity for Diagnosing Malnutrition and is Associated with Longer Hospitalization in Patients with Gastrointestinal or Head and Neck Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study
2024-01-12
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Purpose Few studies have evaluated the individual performance of the nutritional indicators body mass index (BMI), calf circumference (CC), and handgrip strength (HGS) for the diagnosis of malnutrition in the cancer setting. We aimed to evaluate the ability of these nutritional indicators to accurately diagnose malnutrition and their association with hospital length of stay (LOS) in pa...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7ce9a53a-0def-557d-a528-c11a38edfeb6
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3849041/v1
