The nutritional status of Finnish home-living elderly people and the relationship between energy intake and chronic diseases

Age and Ageing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-138

  Rissanen, Päivi M ^a   Laakkonen, Eini I ^a   Suntioinen, Sirpa ^a   Penttilä, Ilkka M ^b   Uusitupa, Matti I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; MINERAL; VITAMIN; ZINC;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIET; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0029937650     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/25.2.133     Document Type: Article

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