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February 2, 2026The journal of nutrition health & aging0 citationsOpen Access

The role of nutritional risk indexes in predicting physical frailty and its progression in community-dwelling older adults

YHYi-Chun HsuYKYung-Shuo KaoIWI-Chien Wu

Key Points

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of nutritional risk indexes in predicting physical frailty in older adults.
  • Assessed nutritional risk using PNI and GNRI
  • Evaluated frailty status among community-dwelling older adults
  • Analyzed the association between nutritional risk indexes and frailty risk
  • Identified strong association between PNI and GNRI with frailty status
  • Confirmed nutritional risk as a predictor of frailty progression
  • Highlighted potential for clinical integration of these tools

Abstract

As malnutrition is a significant risk factor for frailty, both the PNI and GNRI are valuable tools in assessing the nutritional risk and had shown strong association in detecting frailty status and in predicting frailty risk, their further integration into clinical use is promising.

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Hsu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6980fd60c1c9540dea80f16bhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnha.2026.100798
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