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

Table 5 Comparing the areas under ROC curves of nutritional assessment tools for decline in ambulatory ability

Variables	AUC	95% CI	P-value
CONUT	0.724	0.631-0.800	\(<\) 0.001*
GNRI	0.624	0.515–0.723	0.025 *
PNI	0.636	0.536–0.727	0.0077 *
Variables	Differences between areas	95% CI	P-value
CONUT - GNRI	0.0993	0.0148–0.184	0.021*
CONUT - PNI	0.0873	0.0227–0.152	< 0.001*
GNRI - PNI	-0.012	-0.066-0.0417	0.66

ROC, Receiver operating characteristic, AUC, area under the curve, CONUT, Controlling Nutritional Status, GNRI, Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index, PNI, prognostic nutritional index
* P-value \(<\) 0.05 statistically significant difference

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