Frailty combined with nutritional risk for predicting stroke-associated pneumonia: a cohort study based on a nomogram model
Kailibinuer Aimaier, Jiarui Xiong, Chunrui Liu, Shuhong Zhou, Guangwei Liu, Feng Li · 2026
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Description
Aimaier and colleagues built in 2026 a prediction tool for pneumonia after severe stroke that adds frailty and nutrition risk to the usual clinical signs. Stroke-associated pneumonia is a common and serious setback in intensive care, and older scoring tools miss many cases in the sickest patients. Frailty and poor nutrition both shrink the body's reserves.
The team studied 293 patients in a Chongqing neurocritical care unit, of whom 126 developed pneumonia. Frailty and nutrition risk did not just add up; together they raised risk more than the sum of their parts. A chart-based model using age, feeding tube use, a blood inflammation ratio, frailty, and nutrition risk sorted patients far better than the standard score. The authors offer the tool for early, targeted prevention in stroke units.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kailibinuer Aimaier, Jiarui Xiong, Chunrui Liu, Shuhong Zhou, Guangwei Liu, Feng Li |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |