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Table 1 Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients in the population

From: Predicting clinical outcome of cardiac patients by six malnutrition screening tools

Patient characteristic

Population (n = 526)

Males (n = 322)

Females (n = 204)

Number

%

Number

%

Number

%

Ethnicity

      
 

Sinhala

438

83.3

266

82.6

172

84.3

 

Muslim

43

8.2

24

7.5

19

9.3

 

Indian Tamil

4

.8

4

1.2

0

0

 

Sri Lankan Tamil

34

6.5

22

6.8

12

5.9

 

Other

7

1.3

6

1.9

1

.5

Education level

 

Not educated

55

10.5

25

7.8

30

14.7

 

Up to Grade 5

175

33.3

96

29.8

79

38.7

 

Up to Grade 11

172

32.7

113

35.1

59

28.9

 

Up to Grade 13

101

19.2

73

22.7

28

13.7

 

Tertiary

23

4.4

15

4.7

8

3.9

Age

57.6a ± 12.5

59.9a ± 11.2

58.5a ± 12.0

BMI

23.33a ± 3.67

24.03a ± 4.80

23.60a ± 4.15

Hospital stayd

5.3a ± 5.3

4.0b 2.0-6.0c

5.3a ± 5.9

4.0a 2.0-6.0c

5.1a ± 4.1

4.0b 3.0-6.0c

During hospital stay

 

Deaths

10

1.9

4

1.2

6

2.9

 

Cardiac and non cardiac complications

26

4.9

16

5.0

10

5.0

 

Non prophylactic antibiotics

67

12.7

39

12.1

28

13.7

 

Multivitamin mineral supplements

32

6.1

14

4.3

18

8.8

 

High protein/high calorie supplements

2

0.4

2

0.6

0

0.0

 

Enteral/parenteral nutrition

0

0.0

0

0.0

0

0.0

 

Intensive care transfer

112

21.3

79

24.5

33

16.2

 

Emergency procedures

50

9.5

36

11.2

14

6.9

 

Transfers

21

4.0

14

4.3

7

3.4

Follow up at 1 monthe

 

Deaths

9

1.9

7

2.4

2

1.1

 

Features of infection

19

4.0

10

3.4

9

5.0

 

Readmission

53

11.1

30

10.1

23

12.9

  1. aMean bMedian cInter-quartile range (Q1-Q3); dN = 516; eN = 475