Current clinical nutrition practices in critically ill patients in Latin America: a multinational observational study

Table 5 Patient nutritional status and nutrition-related risk

Patients, n (%)		Total (N = 1053)
Nutritional status	Subjective Global Assessment (SGA)
	Well nourished (A)	261 (25.9)
	Moderately malnourished (B)	512 (50.9)
	Severely malnourished (C)	233 (23.2)
	Missing	47
	ESPEN malnutrition score
	Well nourished	816 (86.1)
	Malnourished^a	132 (13.9)
	Missing	105
Nutrition-related risk	NUTRIC score
	Low risk^b	561 (60.8)
	High risk^c	362 (39.2)
	Missing	130

Abbreviations: BMI body mass index, ESPEN European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism; FFMI fat-free mass index, IL-6 interleukin-6, NUTRIC Nutrition Risk in the Critically Ill
^aDefined as (a) BMI <18.5 kg/m² or (b) combination of unintentional weight loss (>10% over an undefined time period or >5% during previous 3 months) and either low BMI (<20 kg/m² [age <70 years] or <22 kg/m² [age ≥70 years]) or low FFMI (<15 kg/m² [women] or <17 kg/m² [men])
^bScore of 0–5 for patients with available IL-6 concentration or 0–4 for patients with no available IL-6 concentration
^cScore of 6–10 for patients with available IL-6 concentration or 5–9 for patients with no available IL-6 concentration

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