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Annals of Intensive Care

Table 1 Patient characteristics at ICU admission

From: Bioimpedance-assessed muscle wasting and its relation to nutritional intake during the first week of ICU: a pre-planned secondary analysis of Nutriti Study

 

Overall (N = 72)

General variables

 Age (years)

68 [59–77]

 Sex (male)

52 (72%)

 Height (m)

1.75 [1.65–1.80]

 Weight (Kg)

81 [69–90]

 Admission BMI (Kg/m2)

27 [24–29]

Reason of admission in ICU

 Respiratory failure

18 (25%)

 Trauma

13 (18%)

 Neurological

14 (19%)

 Emergency surgery

10 (14%)

 Cardiovascular

7 (10%)

 Sepsis*

4 (6%)

 Other

6 (8%)

 APACHE II score

20 [16–25]

 SOFA score

7 [6–8]

 NUTRIC score

5 [4–6]

 Albumin (mg/dL)

29 [18, 27–36]

 WBC 10^3/mm3

10.26 [8.47–13.36]

 Hb (g/dL)

10.3 [9.7–11.72]

 Creatinine (mg/dL)

1.22 [0.92–1.65]

  1. BMI, Body Mass Index; ICU, Intensive Care Unit; APACHE II, Acute Physiologic Assessment and Chronic Health Evaluation II; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment; NUTRIC, Nutrition Risk in Critically ill; WBC, White Blood Cells
  2. *Sepsis from non-respiratory cause
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