Nutritional assessments for ordinary medical care in patients with chronic liver disease

Aim: In patients with chronic liver disease who are at risk of malnutrition, simple and useful assessments for nutritional status should be established for ordinary medical care. The prognostic nutritional index (PNI) and controlling nutritional status (CONUT) are simple assessments constructed of only two or three laboratory data. We aimed to describe the potential of PNI and CONUT as a nutritional assessment tool in patients with chronic liver disease. Methods: We enrolled 165 patients, aged 18–85 years, with chronic liver disease. These patients were nutritionally assessed by PNI or CONUT, demonstrating the association with the severity of chronic liver disease or anthropometric values. Results: The value of PNI or CONUT was significantly associated with the severity of chronic liver disease (P