TITLE:
Simple Nutritional and Inflammatory Markers Associated with Bed Sores in Elderly Stroke People
AUTHORS:
Mohammed Zein Abdulwadood, Safaa Hussein Ali
KEYWORDS:
Bedsores, Nutritional, Inflammatory, Stroke, Elderly
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Aging Research,
Vol.5 No.2,
March
23,
2016
ABSTRACT: Background: Bed sores are major burden to hospital care and usually associated with worse prognosis and longer hospital stay. Aims: To evaluate whether simple biochemical inflammatory and nutritional markers would differ between those with bedsores and those without in elderly stroke patients and if there is a distinction between recent bed sore stroke patients and old bed sore stroke patients as regard these biomarkers. Methods: 80 Stroke elderly patients were enrolled and divided into four groups: patients with recent stroke who developed bedsores, patients with recent stroke who did not develop bedsores, patients with old stroke who developed bedsores and patients with old stroke who did not develop bedsores. Nutritional markers (albumin, total protein, magnesium, iron, total iron binding capacity (TIBC), hemoglobin and cholesterol) and inflammatory markers (total leucocyte count, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and ferritin) were compared between the four groups. Results: Concerning nutritional markers, albumin (P =