Association between prognostic nutritional index and mortality in critically ill patients with atrial fibrillation: a retrospective cohort study
Xiangjun Kong, Zongjun Hu, Xia Huang, Jianguo Chen, Li Chen, Lei Huang, Shunlin Tan · 2026
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Xiangjun Kong and six colleagues test a nutrition score as a death warning in very ill patients with atrial fibrillation in a 2026 study. The score mixes albumin and lymphocyte counts from routine blood tests. The main group held 3,007 patients from a big United States intensive care database. A second database group of 2,741 patients checked the result.
Each ten-point rise in the score cut thirty-day death risk by about a third. The same held at ninety days and one year. Hospital death odds also fell with higher scores. The check group agreed on hospital deaths. Survival curves separated cleanly by score quarters. The link bent rather than running straight. The authors call the score a cheap extra signal for triage. It uses labs already drawn, which suits busy intensive care units.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiangjun Kong, Zongjun Hu, Xia Huang, Jianguo Chen, Li Chen, Lei Huang, Shunlin Tan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 57999 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |