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NCT Number: NCT07409519

Nutritional Screening in Cardiovascular Disease

This is a nutritional screening and assessment study conducted prior to heart surgery. The nutritional status of patients will be assessed by a series of questionnaires, blood/urine biomarkers and measurement of grip strength and body composition. The investigators will then evaluate of any of the assessments are linked with clinical outcomes following surgery. For example, how long do patients stop in the intensive care unit (ICU), in hospital and how many complications patients experience.

The investigators hope to use this important clinical data to understand how medical staff can identify a poor nutritional status and which patients may need nutritional support prior to surgery.

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Key information

Conditions

Cardiovascular Diseases

Age range

40 year–85 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Hull, E. Riding Yorkshire, HU16 5JQ, United Kingdom

Location status: Recruiting

About this study

This is a cross sectional nutritional screening and assessment study conducted prior to cardiac surgery . The investigators will focus on comparing aspects of nutritional status with robust and validated clinical outcomes (mechanical ventilation, ICU time, hospital stay and Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery (SCTS) complications). The investigators will utilise various nutritional screening questionnaires and assessments, including routine clinical malnutrition tools (i.e. MUST, NRS), plus more nutritional quality assessments such as the NOVA ultra-processed food intake, mediterranean diet and blood biomarker panels such as the Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT).

The investigators will also undertake a functional grip strength test and measure body composition including fat mass (FM) & fat-free mass (FFM), segmental analysis, sarcopenic obesity and visceral fat. The study will also conduct questionnaires regarding other lifestyle related factors (sleep, recent physical activity, stress, anxiety, depression) which might also influence surgical outcomes.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • No pre-specified inclusion criteria to ensure we recruit a representative group of patients.

Exclusion criteria

  • All patients without proficiency in English that allows completion of questionnaires
  • Unable to provide written consent

Treatment and study plan

Nutritional Screening

Behavioral

To identify which nutritional screening approaches (nutritional questionnaires, biomarkers, sarcopenic obesity or grip strength are most strongly linked to surgical outcomes following cardiac surgery.

Primary outcomes

  1. Time in ICU

    Time frame: From ICU admission until ICU discharge, up to 30 days

    The total time in hours spent in the ICU, calculated from ICU admission following cardiac surgery to ICU discharge to the general cardiology ward

  2. Complications post cardiac surgery

    Time frame: Number of complications following cardiac surgery, up to 30 days

    The number of Society of Cardio-thoracic Surgery register of complications

  3. Length of Hospital Stay

    Time frame: From hospital admission until hospital discharge, up to 30 days

    Length of hospital stay from admission to medical discharge

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Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Registry information

Official study title

Nutritional Screening in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease

Acronym: NS

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2027
First posted
Feb 13, 2026
Registry last updated
Jun 23, 2026

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