NPPB and Cachexia: As MNA-SF scores decreased, BMI, systolic blood pressure, Barthel index scores, and concentrations of albumin, hemoglobin and sodium tended to decrease, whereas heart rate, prevalence of history of HF hospitalization, proportions of patients with diabetes and cachexia, Charlson Comorbidity Index, BNP, and proportion of patients receiving loop diuretics and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists tended to increase.