en Professional Health Professional Health پژوهشي Research <span style="font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Minion Pro&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><b>Introduction</b>: Malnutrition in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is associated with adverse clinical outcomes. The modified nutrition risk score (mNUTRIC) in the critically ill patients has been proposed as an appropriate nutritional assessment tool. This study designed to evaluate the nutritional status of hospitalized patients in the intensive care by mNutric, and its relationship with the patient&#39;s condition and hospitalization outcomes.</span></span><br> <span style="font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Minion Pro&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><b>Materials & Methods</b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">: </span></span></b>: In this prospective observational study, the nutritional status of 90 critically hospitalized patients within a 40 week period was determined using the mNutric score tool. For calculation of this score, patient data including age, number of co-morbidities, number of hospitalization days, SOFA score, APACHE II score was extracted from patient medical documents. Patients with scores higher than 5 were considered as high nutritional risk and patients with &le;5 were low nutritional risk. Analysis was done at a significance level of 0.05.<span lang="FA" dir="RTL" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Minion Pro&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><b>Results</b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">: &nbsp;</span></span></b>The mean age of participants was 60.72 &plusmn; 19.46 years. 60% of patients were male and 40% were female. The average hospitalization duration in the intensive care unit was 7.06 &plusmn; 6.36. The mean mNutric Score in the studied patients was 3.70 &plusmn; 2.23. Results showed 57 (63.3%) and 33 (36.7%) subjects were identified as at low and high nutritional risk, respectively, with different ventilator dependency, patient&#39;s mortality and age.</span></span><br> <span style="font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Minion Pro&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><b>Conclusion</b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">: &nbsp;</span></span></b>High percent of hospitalized patients (36.7%) in intensive care units were identified as nutritionally high risk subjects. In high risk patients compared to low ones, more ventilator dependancy, longer days of hospitalization and more deaths were seen.</span></span> mNUTRIC, hospitalization, nutritional status, Intensive care, risk assessment 58 65 http://jbrms.medilam.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1738-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Hooshmand Shahi hooshmandshahi@gmail.com 10031947532846008537 0009-0002-3903-0509 No Medical school, Ilam University of medical sciences, Ilam, Iran Davoud Vahabzadeh dvaha2003.dv@gmail.com 10031947532846008538 10031947532846008538 Yes Non communicable disease research center, Ilam University of medical sciences, Ilam, Iran Hojjat Sayadi sayyadi.h@gmail.com 10031947532846008539 10031947532846008539 No Non communicable disease research center, Ilam University of medical sciences, Ilam, Iran Shahin Shahbazi Shahbazi-sh@medilam.ac.ir 10031947532846008540 10031947532846008540 No Medical school, Ilam University of medical sciences, Ilam, Iran Ali Sharifi sharifi.ali@yahoo.com 10031947532846008541 10031947532846008541 No Medical school, Ilam University of medical sciences, Ilam, Iran