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Table 1 Characteristics of the enrolled patients

From: The association between nutritional adequacy and 28-day mortality in the critically ill is not modified by their baseline nutritional status and disease severity

Patient characteristics

Enrolled patients (n = 440)

Survivors (n = 317)

Nonsurvivors (n = 123)

p value

Short-term ENS (≤ 6 days) (n = 106)

Longer-term ENS (≥ 7 days) (n = 146)

p value

Age (years)

61.4 (15.7)

59.3 (15.9)

66.8 (14.1)

< 0.001

60.4 (16.9)

59.5 (15.5)

0.655

Male

259 [58.9]

192 [60.6]

67 [54.5]

0.244

63 [59.4]

92 [63.0]

0.564

BMI (kg/m2)

24.4 [21.3, 28.2]

24.4 [21.2, 28.0]

24.2 [21.3, 28.6]

0.955

24.5 [21.2, 29.5]

24.6 [21.8, 28.4]

0.726

Location before adm.

   

0.003

  

0.976

 ED/HD/OT

357 [81.1]

268 [84.5]

89 [72.4]

 

88 [83.0]

121 [82.9]

 

 Wards

83 [18.9]

49 [15.5]

34 [27.6]

 

18 [17.0]

25 [17.1]

 

Type of adm.

   

0.006

  

0.001

 Medical

293 [66.6]

199 [62.8]

94 [76.4]

 

80 [75.5]

79 [54.1]

 

 Surgery

147 [33.4]

118 [37.2]

29 [23.6]

 

26 [24.5]

67 [45.9]

 

Number of comorbidities

2.0 [1.0, 4.0]

2.0 [1.0, 4.0]

3.0 [2.0, 4.0]

0.069

3.0 [1.0, 4.0]

2.0 [1.0, 3.0]

0.002

LOS before ICU adm. (days)

0.0 [0.0, 1.0]

0.0 [0.0, 1.0]

1.0 [0.0, 3.0]

0.009

0.0 [0.0, 1.3]

0.0 [0.0, 1.3]

0.730

APACHE II

24.5 (8.1)

22.6 (7.4)

29.5 (7.7)

< 0.001

25.4 (8.4)

24.7 (7.6)

0.543

SOFA

8.7 (3.8)

7.9 (3.5)

10.7 (3.8)

< 0.001

9.2 (3.7)

9.1 (3.8)

0.909

mNUTRIC

5.3 (2.1)

4.8 (2.1)

6.6 (1.5)

< 0.001

5.5 (2.3)

5.3 (2.0)

0.531

mNUTRIC ≥ 5

299 [68.0]

187 [59.0]

112 [91.1]

< 0.001

74 [69.8]

100 [68.5]

0.823

Malnutrition

123 [28.0]

72 [22.7]

51 [41.5]

< 0.001

31 [29.2]

35 [24.0]

0.347

Admission reasons

   

< 0.001

  

0.020

 Cardiovascular

82 [18.6]

43 [13.6]

39 [31.7]

 

19 [17.9]

18 [12.3]

 

 Respiratory

84 [19.1]

68 [21.5]

16 [13.0]

24 [22.6]

21 [14.4]

 Sepsis

105 [23.9]

72 [22.7]

33 [26.8]

36 [34.0]

39 [26.7]

 Trauma

12 [2.7]

12 [3.8]

0 [0.0]

4 [3.3]

4 [2.7]

 Metabolic/renal

8 [1.8]

8 [2.5]

0 [0.0]

2 [1.9]

2 [1.4]

 Gastrointestinal

42 [9.6]

29 [9.2]

13 [10.6]

3 [2.8]

8 [5.5]

 Postoperation

13 [3.0]

12 [3.8]

1 [0.8]

4 [3.8]

3 [2.1]

 Orthopaedics

7 [1.6]

6 [1.9]

1 [0.8]

1 [0.9]

2 [1.4]

 Neurological

87 [19.8]

67 [21.1]

20 [16.3]

13 [12.3]

49 [33.6]

CPR before ICU adm.

53 [12.1]

17 [5.4]

36 [29.3]

< 0.001

18 [17.0]

18 [12.3]

0.297

Length of MV (days)

2.0 [1.0, 5.0]

2.0 [1.0, 4.0]

3.0 [2.0, 6.0]

< 0.001

3.0 [2.0, 4.0]

7.0 [4.0, 13.0]

< 0.001

ICU LOS (days)

2.0 [2.0, 5.0]

2.0 [1.0, 4.0]

3.0 [2.0, 6.0]

0.001

3.0 [2.0, 4.0]

7.0 [4.0, 12.0]

< 0.001

Hospital LOS (days)

14.0 [7.0, 25.0]

15.0 [9.0, 33.0]

9.0 [4.0, 16.0]

< 0.001

8.0 [4.0, 15.3]

24.0 [16.0, 45.0]

< 0.001

  1. Values are mean (standard deviation), median [Q1, Q3], or count [percentage]
  2. Adm. admission, APACHE II Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II, BMI body mass index, CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ED emergency department, ENS exclusive nutritional support, HD high dependency, ICU intensive care unit, LOS length of stay, MV mechanical ventilation, mNUTRIC Modified Nutrition Risk in Critically Ill, OT operation theatre, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment
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