Subsequently, we aimed to confirm the anthropometric results further through the nutritional status hierarchical analysis, and showed some anthropometric measurements with differentiating value for nutrition evaluation (Table (Table3).3). Here we showed that BMI had a strong correlation with the nutritional status (P = 0.02) and followed by MAC (P = 0.049), which indicated that the lower BMI and MAC, the higher MQSGA score. Next we attempted to confirm the above data with scatter plots, regression line, as shown in Figure Figure1A,1A, A,11B.