Nutritional evaluation of geriatric patients with alzheimers disease in southern brazil: case-control study / Evaluación nutricional de pacientes geriátricos con enfermedad de Alzheimer en el Sur del Brasil: estudio de controles de caso
Nutr. hosp
; 35(3): 564-569, mayo-jun. 2018. tab, graf
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RESUMEN
Introduction: elderly's malnutrition is linked, among other factors, to chronic-degenerative diseases, requiring an improvement in the clinical evaluation of nutritional status of this population. Studies have tried to find out new tools to assess aged-people nutritional status. One of most used scales to investigate nutritional status on geriatric patients is the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA).Objective: the present study aims to evaluate nutritional status of Alzheimers disease (AD) patients, by comparison with a control group, via Mini Nutritional Assessment. Methods: a cross-sectional study, which includes 35 alzheimers old-people and 43 control old-people, was performed evaluating nutritional status with MNA. Results: total score of MNA in the alzheimer group shows that 71.42% were in malnutrition risk, 14.28% were malnourished and 14.25% presented normal nutritional status. In addition, in the control group 79.06% of patients (n = 34) were classified as having normal nutritional status and 20.93% (n = 9), as being at risk of malnutrition. Conclusion: results reinforce the purpose that MNA can be used as a proper instrument to evaluate nutritional status in elderly, mainly in AD, because measuring risk and nutritional status of this population is indispensable
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06-national
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ES
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IBECS
Main subject:
Geriatric Assessment
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Nutrition Assessment
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Alzheimer Disease
Limits:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
America do sul
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Brasil
Language:
En
Journal:
Nutr. hosp
Year:
2018
Document type:
Article