Value of the controlling nutritional status score and psoas muscle thickness per height in predicting prognosis in liver transplantation

Table 1 Relationship between the controlling nutritional status score and general patient clinical data

Group	Low CONUT	Medium CONUT	High CONUT	P value
Age	49.7 ± 9.9	50.2 ± 9.8	46.6 ± 10.1	0.102
Sex (M:F)	48:17	128:45	34:9	0.801
BMI (kg/m2)	23.5 (21.2-25.4)	23.7 (21.6-27.0)	24.3 (21.8-28.0)	0.515
MELD score	14 (10-20)	15 (10-21)	18 (13-21)	0.155
Etiology				0.386
HBV (n)	42	90	22
HCV (n)	1	2	0
Alcohol (n)	4	20	5
NASHE(n)	4	10	2
Autoimmune diseases (n)	8	23	11
Cryptogenic (n)	1	2	1
Other (n)	4	26	3

BMI: Body mass index; CONUT: Controlling nutritional status; F: Female; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; HCV: Hepatitis C virus; M: Male; MELD: Model for end-stage liver disease; NASH: Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.