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The screening score of Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is a useful routine screening tool for malnutrition risk in patients on maintenance dialysis.


ABSTRACT: PURPOSE:Malnutrition is prevalent in patients on dialysis and is associated with morbidity and mortality. Nutritional status can be assessed by a variety of biochemical and physical parameters or nutritional assessment scores. Most of these methods are expensive or cumbersome to use and are not suitable for routine repetitive follow-up in dialysis patients. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) has a short form screening set (MNA-SF), which would be suitable as a screening tool, but has not been validated yet in dialysis patients. We aimed to assess whether the MNA is an appropriate tool for identifying nutritional problems in dialysis patients. METHOD:MNA, routine biochemistry, physical parameters, comorbidities were assessed in cross-sectional multicentric cohorts of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients with a longitudinal follow up of 2 years for mortality. RESULTS:In this cohort of 216 patients, mortality was 27.3% at a follow up of 750±350 days. The mean MNA-SF score was 9.9±1.8, with 30.1%, 59.3% and 10.6% of patients categorized as having normal nutritional status, at risk for malnutrition and malnourished, respectively. The screening score was associated with mortality (HR 0.86, 95% CI 0.75-0.98 per point). With normal nutrition as reference, adjusted mortality was 2.50 (95% CI 1.16-5.37) and 3.89 (95% CI 1.48-10.13) for patients at risk for malnutrition and with malnutrition, respectively. After recalibrating the MNA full score for the specificity of some of its domains for dialysis patients, the MNA-SF had a good sensitivity and specificity for not being well nourished (0.95 and 0.63 respectively) in the full score, and a high negative predictive value (0.91). CONCLUSION:The MNA-SF is independently associated with 2 year mortality in dialysis patients. It has a high negative predictive value for excluding being at risk or having malnutrition in the full score. Therefore, it can be advocated as a screening tool for nutritional status in dialysis patients.

SUBMITTER: Holvoet E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7055863 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The screening score of Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is a useful routine screening tool for malnutrition risk in patients on maintenance dialysis.

Holvoet Els E   Vanden Wyngaert Karsten K   Van Craenenbroeck Amaryllis H AH   Van Biesen Wim W   Eloot Sunny S  

PloS one 20200304 3


<h4>Purpose</h4>Malnutrition is prevalent in patients on dialysis and is associated with morbidity and mortality. Nutritional status can be assessed by a variety of biochemical and physical parameters or nutritional assessment scores. Most of these methods are expensive or cumbersome to use and are not suitable for routine repetitive follow-up in dialysis patients. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) has a short form screening set (MNA-SF), which would be suitable as a screening tool, but has  ...[more]

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