The MNA (Mini Nutritional Assessment) : Update

Facts, Research and Intervention in Geriatrics

Volumn , Issue SUPPL., 1997, Pages 105-107

  Guigoz, Y ^a   Nourhashemi, F ^b   Vellas, B ^b  

^a NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^b TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

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