Individualized Nutritional Rehabilitation Improves Muscle Strength, Cognitive Function, and Quality of Life in Elderly Patients with Sarcopenia and Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Abstract
Sarcopenia, the progressive loss of muscle mass and strength, greatly affects the elderly. Combined with cognitive impairment, it severely impairs physical function and quality of life. While personalized nutritional rehabilitation programs are proposed, their efficacy remains understudied. To evaluate the effects of individualized nutritional rehabilitation on clinical symptoms and prognosis in elderly patients with sarcopenia and cognitive impairment. This randomized controlled trial enrolled 96 patients with sarcopenia and cognitive impairment (March 2022-March 2023), randomly assigned to intervention (individualized nutritional rehabilitation plus standard care, n=48) or control groups (standard care only, n=48). Assessments included nutritional markers (hemoglobin, albumin, vitamin D), muscle strength (Medical Research Council scale), balance (Berg Balance Scale), physical performance (Short Physical Performance Battery), activities of daily living, grip strength, 5-times sit-to-stand test, 6-m walk speed, cognitive function (Montreal Cognitive Assessment), and quality of life pre- and post-intervention. Post-intervention, the intervention group showed significantly higher hemoglobin, albumin, vitamin D, and lower Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment scores (all p<0.05). They demonstrated superior improvements in upper/lower limb strength, Short Physical Performance Battery, Berg Balance Scale, Activities of Daily Living scores, grip strength, sit-to-stand time, and 6-min walk distance (all p<0.05). Montreal Cognitive Assessment scores improved more in the intervention group (25.3±3.2 vs 22.1±3.5, p<0.05). Quality of life improved significantly more in the intervention versus control group (p<0.05). Individualized nutritional rehabilitation effectively improves nutritional status, muscle strength, physical function, cognitive performance, and quality of life in elderly patients with sarcopenia and cognitive impairment.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".