Nutritional differences in patients with proximal femoral fractures

Age and Ageing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 458-462

  Maffulli, Nicola ^a   Dougall, Timothy W ^a   Brown, Matthew T F ^a   Golden, Michael H N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Hip fractures; Malnutrition

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032886573     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/28.5.458     Document Type: Article

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