A prospective study on age-specific normative values of the prognostic nutritional index and the effects of malnutrition on spinal alignment using health checkup data of elderly residents
Malnutrition in males negatively impacts their lumbar-pelvic alignment. While the normative PNI value decreases with age, the two variables show a very weak correlation.
Authors
- Hideyuki Arima (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0586-6818)
- Tomohiro Yamada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7220-7321)
- Shin Oe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0794-4026)
- Tomohiko Hasegawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6219-431X)
- Yu Yamato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4701-8211)
- Yukihiro Matsuyama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6506-3454)
- Tomohiro Banno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6938-7501)
- Kenta Kurosu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7660-2655)
- Go Yoshida (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0265-6372)
- Koichiro Ide (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4253-568X)
Institutions
- Hamamatsu University (JP)
- Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Asian Spine Journal
- Published
- 2025-08-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2024.0547
- Primary Topic
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institutes of Health