Evaluation of the effectiveness of the modified nutrition risk in the critically ill (mNUTRIC) score in critically ill patients affected by COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU)

Table 3 The mean of patients’ demographic, anthropometrics and laboratory findings and the correlation of these parameters with modified Nutrition Risk in the critically ill score (mNUTRIC score)

Parameter	Mean ± SD	Correlation with NUTRIC	p-value
Age (year)	61.98 ± 15.27	0.321^b	< 0.001
Duration of hospitalization (day)	14.99 ± 9.31	-0.151^a	0.031
Duration of hospitalization in ICU (day)	11.04 ± 7.93	−0.119	0.089
ALT (IU/L)	58.38 ± 85.20	0.121	0.086
AST (IU/L)	68.81 ± 80.39	0.253^b	< 0.001
Bilirubin total (mg/dl)	0.86 ± 0.85	−0.010	0.887
Bilirubin direct (mg/dl)	0.31 ± 0.42	0.007	0.916
LDH (U/L)	966.32 ± 462.11	0.156^a	0.026
CPK (U/L)	376.56 ± 622.58	0.036	0.611
CRP (mg/L)	75.55 ± 37.23	0.172^a	0.014
PaO2 (mmHg)	53.32 ± 27.90	−0.060	0.393
Albumin (g/dl)	3.38 ± 0.47	−0.206^b	0.003
INR	1.29 ± 0.44	0.036	0.607
PH	7.34 ± 0.10	−0.363^b	0.000
PCO2	41.20 ± 11.95	0.118	0.093
APACHE2	15.22 ± 6.80	0.434^b	< 0.001
SOFA	5.65 ± 2.96	0.221^b	0.002

Abbreviations: ALT Alanine aminotransferase, AST Aspartate aminotransferase, LDH Lactate dehydrogenase, CPK Creatinine phosphokinase, CRP C reactive protein, PaO2 Partial pressure of oxygen, INR International normalized ratio, PCO2 Partial pressure of carbon dioxide, APACHE2 Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation 2, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, NUTRIC Nutrition Risk in the Critically ill, ICU Intensive care unit
^aCorrelation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
^bCorrelation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)

ISSN: 2055-0928