Do laboratory nutritional parameters predict one-year mortality in elderly patients with intertrochanteric fracture?
Malnutrition is a common phenomenon in an aged Chinese population suffering from intertrochanteric fractures. A lower serum albumin level and total lymphocyte count at admission are significant risk factors to predict the one-year mortality.
This suggests that conformational changes in the polypeptide chain induced by the carbohydrate are responsible for the observed binding patterns.