Background: Malnutrition, loss of body weight, muscle and fat mass wasting are common in patients with Parkinson's disease, and are associated with disability, longer length of hospital stay, impaired immune system and increased risk of mortality. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status in patients with Parkinson's disease and its relation to the severity of the disease. &...

Materials and methods We assessed 91 outpatients followed in an urban infectious disease clinic in south Madrid (Spain). In each case age, gender, race, HIV risk group, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection status, smoking status, degree of immune depression, viral load, presence or absence of an AIDS diagnosis, time since diagnosis of HIV infection, antiretroviral therapy (ART), type of ART, anthr...

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...

BACKGROUND Cancer cachexia adversely affects survival and quality of life but its timely recognition is problematic. Nutritional questionnaires, like the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), could identify early those patients at risk. The aim of the study was to compare MNA with 5% weight loss, a common criterion used in oncologic evaluation. PATIENTS AND METHODS The nutritional status of 171 ...

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...

Method: Cross-sectional descriptive study in 88 patients (44 males) who presented malnutrition at their hospital discharge. Patients presented 72.28±11.84 years of age and were grouped according to their liquid intake: from 3 to 5 glasses (n=42), and over 5 glasses of liquid (n=46); estimated through the Mini Nutritional Assessment questionnaire. The BMI, weight, Malnutrition Universal Screenin...

BACKGROUND Studies on the systemic availability of nutrients and nutritional status in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are widely available, but the majority included patients in a moderate stage of AD. OBJECTIVE This study compares the nutritional status between mild AD outpatients and healthy controls. METHODS A subgroup of Dutch drug-naïve patients with mild AD (Mini-Mental State Examination (M...

BACKGROUND The risk of malnutrition is widely recognized in institutional settings but few studies have been conducted among community-dwelling older people. The objective of this study was to describe the nutritional status and factors associated with possible malnutrition among community-dwelling older people. METHODS A randomly selected sample (n = 696) of persons aged ≥ 75 years were incl...

MNA is a simple and accurate way to assess the nutritional status in routine practice, and is suitable for systematic use and large epidemiologic studies. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the difference in the nutritional status of elderly patients hospitalized in different types of care in the same hospital, and to evaluate its relationship with risk factors. Nutritional status was ev...

Introduction: Nutrition is an important determinant of health in the elderly. Older people are more susceptible to malnutrition that leaves adverse effects on their health. This study aimed to evaluate the nutritional status of the community-dwelling elderly in Tabriz City.   Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among non- institutionalized older people in Tabriz, Iran. A to...