Nutrition Risk Factors in Older Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patients

states,7 is a proxy indicator of inflammation,6 and is associated with adverse outcomes.6 Rich et al8 retrospec-tively analyzed the effect of hypoalbuminemia (serum albumin level <3.5 g/dL) on postoperative complications in 92 patients (>75 years of age) undergoing cardiac sur-gery over a 2-year period. Fourteen percent were hypoal-buminemic, and hypoalbuminemia was the most significant predictor of postoperative renal dysfunction and a contributor to postoperative length of stay. Rady et al9 found preoperative hypoalbuminemia to be predic-tive of biomedical outcomes in 2743 adults admitted to a cardiovascular intensive care unit over a 1-year period. Patients classified as having hypoalbuminemia, hypoal-buminemia and liver insufficiency, or hypoalbuminemia and congestive heart failure had an increased likelihood of post