Objectives: To identify nursing home residents with malnutrition or at risk of malnutrition by using different markers, determine if the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA®) is able to identify all residents at risk according to single risk markers and explore the relation between risk markers and functional impairment. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Six German nursing homes. Participant...

INTRODUCTION Elderly subjects are considered a vulnerable group and they have more risk of nutritional problems. The risk of malnutrition increases in hospitalized geriatric patients. OBJECTIVES To compare the correlation between MNA and GNRI with anthropometric, biochemical and Barthel Index in hospitalized geriatric patients and to test the concordance between MNA and GNRI and between Mini ...

It is generally admitted that the prevalence of undernutrition at home is not high. However, as showed by a number of studies carried out in Europe and USA (1), it can reach half of the patients when admitted in hospital. Moreover, in a geriatric population, undernutrition is not only linked to a morbidity and mortality increase (2) but also to a bad quality of life (3). The frequence of protei...

Introduction: A challenge for health care providers is that there will be a distinct rise globally in the number of elderly people aged 80 years and over. Malnutrition is a well-known problem among elderly people. The aim of this study was to determine nutritional status and its associated risk factors in elderly nursing home residents in Tehran, Iran.  Methods: The cross-sectional st...

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 ...

Objectives: Elderly nursing homes residents are at an increased risk of malnutrition due to a variety of factors. We aimed at investigating the prevalence of malnutrition and its correlation with elderly subjects using Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) questionnaire.  Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on elderly individuals (N=56; female=28) dwelling in the Sedigh Nursing ...

PURPOSE The increasing number of elderly people worldwide throughout the years is concerning due to the health problems often faced by this population. This review aims to summarize the nutritional status among hospitalized elderly and the role of the nutritional assessment tools in this issue. METHODS A literature search was performed on six databases using the terms "malnutrition", "hospita...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) test and the short-form MNA (MNA-SF) as screening tools for malnutrition risk and malnutrition in the free-living elderly of northwestern Spain. DESIGN transversal study. SETTING free-living elderly people of northwestern Spain. SUBJECTS 728 participants (36.4% men and 63.6% women), the average of age for both genders was 80.7 ± ...

abstract background and purpose:the elderly resident of sari sanatorium is vulnerable in terms of nutrition. this study has been conducted to investigate the nutritive condition of the elderly resident of sari sanatorium in 2011. materials and methods:the method of the present study is periodic and descriptive type. the 104 elderly were studied. the samples’ anthropometric indices were measured...