Age and Nutritional Status by Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) can discriminate Alzheimer’s Disease Severity

Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA): Research and Practice in the Elderly

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MNA® Mini Nutritional Assessment as a nutritional screening tool for hospitalized older adults; rationales and feasibility.

The high prevalence of malnutrition in the growing population of older adults makes malnutrition screening critical, especially in hospitalized elderly patients. The aim of our study was to evaluate the use of the MNA® Mini Nutritional Assessment in hospitalized older adults for rapid evaluation of nutritional risk. A prospective cohort study was made of 106 patients 65 years old or older admit...

The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) for grading the nutritional state of elderly patients: presentation of the MNA, history and validation.

Assessing the nutritional status of elderly Chinese lung cancer patients using the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA®) tool

PURPOSE This study assessed the nutritional status of elderly Chinese lung cancer inpatients using a revised version of the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA(®)) tool. PATIENTS AND METHODS The revised version of the MNA tool was used to assess the nutritional status of 180 elderly Chinese lung cancer inpatients prior to their scheduled surgery between June 2010 and July 2011. Patients' demogra...

A modified Mini Nutritional Assessment without BMI can effectively assess the nutritional status of neuropsychiatric patients.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES To determine whether a modified version of the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) without body mass index (BMI) can effectively identify individuals at risk of malnutrition among patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. BACKGROUND Neuropsychiatric patients have an additional risk of nutritional disorder due to functional impairments and drug effects. However, their nutritio...