Poor nutritional habits are predictors of poor outcome in very old hospitalized patients
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Poor nutritional habits are predictors of poor outcome in very old hospitalized patients.
BACKGROUND Malnutrition is prevalent in elderly populations. Recommended methods of nutritional screening are often too complicated and time-consuming for routine application in frail, very old, hospitalized patients. OBJECTIVE Our aims were to identify risk factors for development of malnutrition in very old hospitalized patients and to evaluate the total Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) sc...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0002-9165,1938-3207
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/82.4.784