Assessing Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio as a Nutritional Indicator in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

Background: In an aging population, there is an increasing need for easily accessible nutritional markers.

Aims: To determine whether the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) can serve as an effective nutritional indicator compared to the Mini-Nutritional Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF) or other common markers such as albumin and body mass index (BMI).

Methods: Data were obtained from the SABE study in Ecuador, which included participants aged 60 years or older.

Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and lymphocyte count as an alternative to body mass index for screening malnutrition in older adults living in the community.

Purpose: Accurate height and weight measurement can be challenging in older adults and complicates nutritional status assessment. Other parameters like the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and the lymphocyte count (LC) could be an option to these measurements. We aimed to test these variables as subrogates of body mass index (BMI) or calf-circumference (CC) for malnutrition screening in community-dwelling older adults.

[Results of a home rehabilitation program after hospitalization in patients with hip fracture].

Introduction: Hip fracture is one of the most frequent disabling injuries, presenting serious complications during the acute and subacute phase. Rehabilitation at home, after hospital discharge, allows rapid functional recovery. The objective of this study is to evaluate the possible usefulness of a home rehabilitation program in patients with hip fracture integrated in a Hospital at Home Unit.

Little things make big things happen: angiolymphatic invasion and tumor necrosis prognosticate the outcome of locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated with a prior induction therapy.

Objectives: Size, invasion of thoracic structures, and ipsilateral mediastinal lymph node involvement (pN2) are well-known prognostic factors that configure the staging of resectable, locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC). The prognostic impact of angiolymphatic invasion (ALI) and tumor necrosis (TN) has been barely explored in LA-NSCLC treated with prior induction therapies.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 47 resected LA-NSCLCs treated with a prior platin-based chemotherapy or chemoradiation.

Age does not worsen the efficacy nor tolerance to combined induction therapies in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

Background: One third of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) affects elderly patients in a locally advanced (LA) stage. Induction therapy followed by a curative approach is becoming the standard-of-care for LA-NSCLC.

Patients And Methods: We compared the efficacy and tolerance to induction chemotherapy or chemo-radiation followed by surgery or definitive radiotherapy in patients younger (N=64) and older (N=44) than 70 years with LA-NSCLC.