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Methods: Patients undergoing open-heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass were assessed using eight nutritional assessment tools, including the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria, the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002), the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), the Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score, the Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), and the Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form (MNA-SF). Results: A total of 197 patients were enrolled in this study, with a mean age of 70.4 \u00b1 11.6 years old; 31.0% were female. Depending on the nutritional assessment tool, 17.8% to 78.2% of patients were identified as at risk of malnutrition. Among the various assessment tools, the MUST was the most effective in predicting postoperative ADL decline (OR 4.75, 95% CI 1.37\u201316.5, p = 0.014) and was also associated with severe complications and length of hospital stay (OR 3.08, 95% CI 0.20\u20130.76, p = 0.009). On the other hand, nutritional risk detected by assessment tools other than MUST, including MNA-SF and GLIM, could predict postoperative complications but showed no relationship to ADL decline. Conclusions: We concluded that MUST was the most useful preoperative nutritional assessment tool for predicting outcomes, particularly for assessing the risk of postoperative ADL decline in patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu17071120","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,24]],"date-time":"2025-03-24T06:21:38Z","timestamp":1742797298000},"page":"1120","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) Predicts Postoperative Declines in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) in Patients Undergoing Cardiovascular Open-Heart Surgery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-0819-9435","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tomomi","family":"Oshima","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition, Kikuna Memorial Hospital, Yokohama 222-0011, Japan"},{"name":"Department of Nutrition, Dohtai Clinic Kajiwara, Kamakura 247-0063, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6362-5823","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rie","family":"Tsutsumi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"396","DOI":"10.1136\/heartjnl-2012-302265","article-title":"The evolving epidemiology of valvular aortic stenosis: The Troms\u00f8 study","volume":"99","author":"Eveborn","year":"2013","journal-title":"Heart"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1035","DOI":"10.1016\/j.amjmed.2013.05.022","article-title":"Valvular heart disease: Classic teaching and emerging paradigms","volume":"126","author":"Brinkley","year":"2013","journal-title":"Am. 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