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However, most research has focused on its later stages rather than its earlier stages, including the prognosis of patients with this condition, or factors that act as early predictors of risk. Therefore, our study aimed to identify early predictors of respiratory muscle paralysis in patients with GBS and determine the short-term prognosis of such patients. We recruited 455 GBS patients (age \u2265 18) who had been hospitalized in the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University between 2016 and 2021, retrospectively. We recorded clinical and laboratory data and used linear and logistic regression analysis to investigate the relationship between early clinical, examination results, and subsequent respiratory muscle paralysis. Among the 455 patients, 129 were assigned to a respiratory muscle paralysis group and 326 were assigned to a non-respiratory muscle paralysis group. Compared with the non-affected group, the time from onset to admission was shorter (p = 0.0003), and the Medical Research Council (MRC) score at admission and discharge was smaller in the affected group (p &lt; 0.0001). Compared with the non-affected group, the affected group had higher Hughes and Erasmus GBS Respiratory Insufficiency Score (EGRIS) scores at admission and longer hospital stays (p &lt; 0.0001). Patients in the affected group were more likely to have bulbar palsy and lung infections (p &lt; 0.0001). To conclude, bulbar palsy, a higher EGRIS score and Hughes score at admission, a lower MRC score, and a shorter time between onset and admission, are all predictive risk factors for respiratory muscle paralysis in patients with GBS. An increase in any of these factors increases the risk of muscle paralysis. Patients with respiratory muscle paralysis have a poorer short-term prognosis than those without respiratory muscle paralysis. Therefore, we should attempt to identify patients with one or more of these characteristics in the early stages of admission, provide ventilation management, and administer IMV treatment if necessary.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina59071267","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,10]],"date-time":"2023-07-10T00:35:21Z","timestamp":1688949321000},"page":"1267","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["An Analysis of Respiratory Muscle Paralysis of Adult Patients in Guillain\u2013Barr\u00e9 Syndrome: A Retrospective Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"59","author":[{"given":"Anqi","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaojing","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinrui","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guozhong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital, Harbin 150000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Di","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5687","DOI":"10.1002\/jmv.27129","article-title":"Diagnose SARS-CoV-2 associated Guillain-Barre syndrome upon appropriate criteria and after exclusion of differentials","volume":"93","author":"Finsterer","year":"2021","journal-title":"J. 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