ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2022
Low muscle strength and low phase angle predicts greater risk to mortality than severity scales (APACHE, SOFA, and CURB-65) in adults hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia.
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- Phase angle is a predictor for postoperative complications in colorectal cancer.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Handgrip strength is associated with mortality in community-dwelling older adults: the Yilan cohort study, Taiwan.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Phase Angle and Handgrip Strength as Predictors of Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Usefulness of phase angle on bioelectrical impedance analysis as a surveillance tool for postoperative infection in critically ill patients.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Introduction: The acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE), sepsis-related organ failure assessment (SOFA), score for pneumonia severity (CURB-65) scales, a low phase angle (PA) and low muscle strength (MS) have demonstrated their prognostic risk for mortality in hospitalized adults. However, no study has compared the prognostic risk between these scales and changes in body composition in a single study in adults with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. The great inflammation and complications that this disease presents promotes immobility and altered nutritional status, therefore a low PA and low MS could have a higher prognostic risk for mortality than the scales. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prognostic risk for mortality of PA, MS, APACHE, SOFA, and CURB-65 in adults hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. Methodology: This was a longitudinal study that included Results: Mean age was 62.79 ± 15.02 years (31-96). Comparative results showed a mean PA of 5.43 ± 1.53 in the group that survived vs. 4.81 ± 1.72 in the group that died, Conclusion: Phase angle and MS were higher risk predictors of mortality than APACHE, SOFA, and CURB-65 in patients hospitalized for COVID-19. It is important to include the assessment of these indicators in patients positive for SARS-CoV-2 and to be able to implement interventions to improve them.
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