Association of the geriatric nutritional risk index with mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Zhong Wen, Shunbing Wang, Yuzhi Li, Xin Tu, Quanbo Zhang, Yufeng Qing · 2026
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Wen and colleagues tested whether a simple nutrition score predicts death among people with rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic autoimmune disease that inflames joints. Their 2026 study used United States national health survey data collected from 2007 to 2018. The score, called the geriatric nutritional risk index, combines blood albumin, a liver-made protein, with body weight relative to ideal weight.
Wen found that participants with rheumatoid arthritis scored lower on the nutrition index and died more often than those without the disease. Each one-point rise in the score came with a modestly lower risk of death from any cause after full adjustment. Patients below the risk cutoff faced roughly eighty percent higher death risk than those above it. No clear link appeared for cardiovascular death specifically, so the authors position the score as a general risk flag needing prospective confirmation.
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| CREATOR | Zhong Wen, Shunbing Wang, Yuzhi Li, Xin Tu, Quanbo Zhang, Yufeng Qing |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |