• Peiyu Wang, Xiankai Chen, Qi Liu, Xianben Liu, and Yin Li.
• Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China; Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China. Electronic address: 18339979852@163.com.
• Nutrition. 2021 Nov 1; 91-92: 111420.

ObjectivesThis study aimed to investigate the performance of the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria for malnutrition assessment in people with esophageal cancer undergoing esophagectomy.MethodsA prospective institutional database of 212 patients with esophageal cancer was reviewed for malnutrition assessment using the GLIM criteria. Perioperative metabolic characteristics, postoperative morbidities, and survival outcomes were investigated for GLIM-defined malnutrition. The performance of the two-step approach in implementing the GLIM criteria was evaluated.ResultsOne hundred eighty-nine patients were identified. The preoperative proportions of moderate and severe malnutrition diagnosed by the GLIM criteria were 45.0% and 30.7%, respectively. Patients with severe malnutrition showed lower levels of serum albumin, prealbumin, and total lymphocyte count on postoperative days 1, 3, and 5 (all Ps < 0.05). Severe malnutrition was not only predictive of overall complications (odds ratio, 8.75; P < 0.001), major complications (odds ratio, 15.6; P < 0.001), and delayed hospital discharge (odds ratio, 7.38; P = 0.001) but was also associated with poor overall and disease-free survival (respectively: hazard ratio, 3.75; P = 0.015; and hazard ratio, 4.18; P = 0.028). Notably, patients with severe malnutrition were more clinically impaired than those with moderate malnutrition. Regarding the two-step approaches, the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool and Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 simplified malnutrition assessments using the GLIM criteria, and the prognostic nutritional index promoted the clinical significance of the GLIM criteria.ConclusionsThe GLIM criteria showed good performance in diagnosing and classifying malnutrition in people with esophageal cancer undergoing esophagectomy. The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, Nutritional Risk Screening 2002, and prognostic nutritional index could be appropriately used to implement the two-step approach to the GLIM criteria.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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