Disease-related nutritional risk and mortality in systemic sclerosis

To evaluate the relationship between mortality and nutritional risk associated with disease activity in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc).A single-centre prospective cohort study involving 160 SSc outpatients (median age, 62 years [25th-75th, 54-68]). Nutritional risk was assessed by the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), a screening tool that combines anthropometric parameters of nutritional status (body mass index [BMI] and percentage of...