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TL;DR
This cross-sectional study assessed 411 breast cancer patients in Ethiopia, finding a high prevalence of malnutrition and a significant negative association between malnutrition severity and overall quality of life scores.
BMC Women's Health · 7 authors, 4 centres
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This cross-sectional study assessed 411 breast cancer patients in Ethiopia, finding a high prevalence of malnutrition and a significant negative association between malnutrition severity and overall quality of life scores.
A cross-sectional study of 411 breast cancer patients at two Ethiopian tertiary hospitals used the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) for nutritional status and the EORTC QLQ-C30 for quality of life. It found a high prevalence of moderate (30.9%) and severe (25.8%) malnutrition. Multivariable linear regression showed moderate malnutrition was associated with a 9.21-point lower overall quality of life score, and severe malnutrition with a 17.81-point lower score, compared to patients who were not malnourished. Malnutrition was also negatively associated with all functional status domains and positively associated with symptom scores. Limitations include the cross-sectional design, which precludes determining causality between nutritional status and quality of life.