Clinical Study
Predictors' Factors of Nutritional Status of Male Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients
Table 2
Prevalence of malnutrition according to FFMI and BMI among COPD subjects (expressed as number and %).
| | Body composition classification | Number () | Percentage (%) |
| | Malnutrition | | | | Cachexia
| FFMI < 16 kg/m2 | 25 | 23.8 | | BMI < 21 kg/m2 | | Muscle Atrophy | FFMI < 16 kg/m2 | 19 | 18.1 | | BMI ≥ 21 kg/m2 | | Normal | | | | | Starvation | FFMI ≥ 16 kg/m2 | 6 | 5.7 | | BMI < 21 kg/m2 | | No changes | FFMI ≥ 16 kg/m2 | 55 | 52.4 | | BMI ≥ 21 kg/m2 |
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