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Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyze the presence of nutritional risk and their correlation with clinical outcome in elderly hospitalized patients. Methods: The study variables were weight, height, body mass index (BMI), nutritional risk, length of stay and death of hospitalized patients in a public hospital in São Paulo. These data were obtained by Sheet Nutritional Care, dietitians completed by the institution. Nutritional risk was determined by nutritional screening tool NRS-2002. To investigate the association between the presence of nutritional risk and other study variables, we used Rao & Scott test and multiple logistic regression (stepwise forward), with 5% significance level. It proceeded to univariate analysis, and variables with p |
