Open AccessGeriatric Nutritional Risk Index Predicts Poor Prognosis of Patients After Curative Surgery for Gastric Cancer
Author(s) -
Hirotaka Furuke,
Daiki Matsubara,
Takeshi Kubota,
Jun Kiuchi,
Hidemasa Kubo,
Takuma Ohashi,
Hiroki Shimizu,
Tomohiro Arita,
Yusuke Yamamoto,
Hirotaka Konishi,
Ryo Morimura,
Atsushi Shiozaki,
Yoshiaki Kuriu,
Hisashi Ikoma,
Hitoshi Fujiwara,
Kazuma Okamoto,
Eigo Otsuji
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cancer diagnosis and prognosis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2732-7787
DOI - 10.21873/cdp.10007
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , odds ratio , cancer , proportional hazards model , risk factor , surgery , confidence interval
The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) is a nutritional measure for predicting the risk of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. We evaluated the utility of the GNRI to predict the short-term and long-term outcomes after curative surgery for gastric cancer (GC).