Creatinine Height Index in Elderly

Ain Shams University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition in Elderly

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: 24 hour urine creatinine excretion

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03814057

AinShamsGer

Details and patient eligibility

About

evaluation of the efficacy of two different age adjusted calculations of CHI compared to other nutritional indicators in the elderly medical patients upon hospital admission.

Full description

Cross sectional study involving one hundred hospitalized elderly (>60 years), Anthropometric measurements, Mini- nutritional assessment, Hand Grip strength, CBC, total protein, albumin, total cholesterol, triglyceride, and 24 hour urinary creatinine excretion were measured within 24 hours of hospital admission calculation of CHI using 2 age adjusted modification was done accuracy of each measurement in detecting malnutrition was evaluated

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• medical elderly patients (>60 years)
• within 24 hours of hospital admission

Exclusion criteria

• sepsis
• fever
• malignancy
• liver cirrhosis
• renal impairment
• critically ill patients
• those with any hemodynamic instability were excluded from the study
• patients receiving diuretics
• patients can't stand to obtain their weight and height
• those can't collect 24 hour urine
• the patients refused to participate in the study

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Elderly Medical Patients at hospital admission

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: 24 hour urine creatinine excretion