highly significantp < 0.05
Specifically, for the mNUTRIC score, the pooled risk associations for both 28-day and ICU mortality remained stable and highly significant ( p < 0.05) in all iterations, despite the exclusion of individual datasets.
Specifically, for the mNUTRIC score, the pooled risk associations for both 28-day and ICU mortality remained stable and highly significant ( p < 0.05) in all iterations, despite the exclusion of individual datasets.
In contrast, while the CONUT score suggested an increased risk of mortality for patients with higher scores (poorer nutrition), the aggregate random-effects estimate did not reach statistical significance (OR 1.83, 95% CI 0.94–3.54) ( Figure 5 B), likely due to the extreme heterogeneity (I 2 = 97.4%) observed among the included studies. 3.2.3.