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Table 3 Comparison of clinical outcomes between CONUT score low and high group

From: The Impact of Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score on functional prognosis in hospitalized elderly patients with acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures

  

CONUT

 
 

All patients

(n = 134)

Low ( ≤ 3)

n = 58

High ( ≥ 4)

n = 76

P-value

Decline in ambulatory ability (%)

70 (52)

19 (33)

51 (67)

\(<\) 0.001*

Length of stay in hospital, day

39.5 ± 25.4

37.2 ± 24.5

41.4 ± 26.2

0.33

Discharge to nursing home (%)

40 (30)

8 (14)

32 (42)

\(<\) 0.001*

Complications during hospitalization (%)

42 (31)

12 (21)

30 (39)

0.019*

    Delirium

21 (16)

6 (10)

15 (20)

0.13

    Pneumonia

10 (7)

3 (5)

7 (9)

0.37

    Urinary tract infection

7 (5)

3 (5)

4 (5)

0.98

  1. CONUT, Controlling Nutritional Status
  2. * P-value \(<\) 0.05 statistically significant difference