October 21, 2020

Nutritional Risk and Therapy for Severe and Critical COVID-19 Patients: A Multicenter Retrospective Observational Study

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

Keywords (Tags): clinical characteristics, non-pharm interventions, nutrition

Among a cohort of 523 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 from January 2 to February 15, 2020 in China, malnutrition was associated with higher risk of in-hospital death (OR=1.2) and higher risk of poor outcome in the ICU (OR=1.9). After adjustment for age and sex, low BMI and low protein level were also significantly associated with higher risks of severe outcomes. Malnutrition in this study was evaluated by the Nutrition Risk in Critically Ill Score and the Nutritional Risk Screening score.

Li et al. (Sep 30, 2020). Nutritional Risk and Therapy for Severe and Critical COVID-19 Patients: A Multicenter Retrospective Observational Study. Clinical Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2020.09.040