ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2026
The predictive value of malnutrition on the prognosis of severe respiratory failure in elderly patients: a multicenter retrospective study based on interpretable machine learning.
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Background: Elderly patients (≥65 years) with respiratory failure in the ICU have high mortality. Malnutrition worsens outcomes but is often overlooked. This study investigates nutritional status as a predictor of 28-day mortality and develops an interpretable machine learning-based model for early risk stratification. Materials and methods: This multicenter retrospective study enrolled elderly patients (≥65 years) with respiratory failure. The internal cohort came from the MIMIC-IV database, and the external validation cohort from Binzhou Medical University Hospital. Multivariable Cox regression analyzed the associations of the Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), Hemoglobin-Albumin-Lymphocyte-Platelet (HALP) score, and Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) with 28-day all-cause mortality. Restricted cubic spline and Kaplan-Meier curves explored dose-response relationships and survival differences. The internal cohort was randomly split into training (70%) and testing (30%) sets. The Boruta algorithm combined with LASSO regression selected prognostic features from laboratory tests, vital signs, and demographics. Six machine learning algorithms were built and validated by five-fold cross-validation. Model performance was assessed using calibration curves and decision curve analysis. SHAP was used for interpretability. Result: Among 1,385 patients, the 28-day mortality was 29.03%. In fully adjusted Cox models, all three indices as continuous variables were significantly inversely associated with mortality risk (PNI: HR = 0.966, 95% CI: 0.952-0.979, Conclusion: PNI, HALP, and GNRI are independent linear predictors of 28-day mortality in elderly respiratory failure patients. The interpretable machine learning model provides a proof-of-concept tool for risk stratification. However, its low sensitivity limits its current clinical utility, and further optimization is required before clinical implementation.
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