title: [Hand grip strength as a nutritional indicator of patients with oral and maxillofacial malignancies to predict post-operative complications]
abstract: The correlation between hand grip strength(HGS),arm muscle circumference(AMC) and creatinine-height index (CHI) were studied in 127 patients with oral and maxillofacial malignancies.Prediction of postoperative complications by using HGS was also attempted in the patients undergoing surgical treatment.The results showed:(1)HGS correlated well with AMC and CHI,indicating that HGS can be used as a nutritional parameter to reflect the skeletal muscle condition(depletion or repletion);(2)comparison of the operative patients whose HGS<85% of the standard value(Group I)with those HGS>/=85% of the standard value(Group II)demonstrated that Group I hand a much higher incidence of postoperative complication(48.4%) than that of Group II (18.5%)(X=9.30;P<0.005),which means that HGS can be served as a nutritional prognostic indicator to predict postoperative complications.
authors.affiliation: School of Stomatology, Beijing Medical University. Beijing 100081,China.
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: X H
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Ma