The role of nutritional risk indexes in predicting physical frailty and its progression in community-dwelling older adults
As malnutrition is a significant risk factor for frailty, both the PNI and GNRI are valuable tools in assessing the nutritional risk and had shown strong association in detecting frailty status and in predicting frailty risk, their further integration into clinical use is promising.
Authors
- Yi-Chun Hsu
- I-Chien Wu
- Shu-Chun Chuang
- Chao Agnes Hsiung
- Wan-Ting Tasi
- Yung-Shuo Kao
- Chih-Cheng Hsu
- Marion M. Lee
Institutions
- National Health Research Institutes (TW)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- China Medical University (TW)
- Ministry of Health and Welfare (TW)
- China Medical University Hospital (TW)
- Changhua Christian Hospital (TW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The journal of nutrition health & aging
- Published
- 2026-01-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnha.2026.100798
- Primary Topic
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00