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Competing Interests: The authors have nothing to disclose.
Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank Lezgin Dursun, who worked as
a researcher at the School of Medicine of Dicle University for his data
assistance.
Funding: None
Table 1. Severity of malnutrition assessed by CONUT score