Response to letter regarding article by Formiga et al., "Utility of the Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score in patients admitted due to acute heart failure"

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan; Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine/Public Health, Kyoto, Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan; National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: t.nagai@imperial.ac.uk.
³ Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine/Public Health, Kyoto, Japan.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.

Comment

Naotsugu Iwakami et al. Int J Cardiol. 2018.

. 2018 Apr 1:256:25.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.08.017.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan; Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine/Public Health, Kyoto, Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan; National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: t.nagai@imperial.ac.uk.
³ Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine/Public Health, Kyoto, Japan.
⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.

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Comment on

Prognostic value of malnutrition assessed by Controlling Nutritional Status score for long-term mortality in patients with acute heart failure.
Iwakami N, Nagai T, Furukawa TA, Sugano Y, Honda S, Okada A, Asaumi Y, Aiba T, Noguchi T, Kusano K, Ogawa H, Yasuda S, Anzai T; NaDEF investigators. Iwakami N, et al. Int J Cardiol. 2017 Mar 1;230:529-536. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.12.064. Epub 2016 Dec 21. Int J Cardiol. 2017. PMID: 28041709
Utility of the Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score in patients admitted due to acute heart failure.
Formiga F, Chivite D, Corbella X. Formiga F, et al. Int J Cardiol. 2017 May 15;235:203. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.02.031. Int J Cardiol. 2017. PMID: 28342502 No abstract available.