Can Preoperative Nutritional Status be one of the Parameters Evaluating Biological Age for Elderly Patients Undergoing Spinal Surgery? A Propensity Score–matched Analysis
Preoperative malnutrition evaluated by GNRI was independently associated with impaired postoperative HRQOL in elderly patients undergoing spinal surgery. The GNRI may serve as a nutritional marker and a surrogate for biological age.
Authors
- Hiromitsu Toyoda
- Makoto Oka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3206-3770)
- Hidetomi Terai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9183-3363)
- Hiroshi Taniwaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8788-3322)
- Ryo Sasaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-9629)
- So Takahashi
- Minori Kato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0372-7267)
- A. SUZUKI
- Hiroaki Nakamura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-5000)
- Masayoshi Iwamae (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3444-4078)
- Yuki Okamura
- Masashi Tsujino
- Y. Kobayashi
- Masato Uematsu
- Yuki Kinoshita
- Yuta Sawada
- Maya Suzuki
- Koji Tamai
Institutions
- ConocoPhillips (United States) (US)
- Gouvernance, Risque, Environnement, Développement (FR)
- Institute for Conflict Research (GB)
- Osaka Metropolitan University (JP)
- Tokyo Metropolitan University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Spine
- Published
- 2026-02-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/brs.0000000000005670
- Primary Topic
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00