Folate Status Worsens in Recently Institutionalized Elderly People without Evidence of Functional Deterioration

Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 392-404

  Essama Tjani, Jeanne Chantal ^a   Guilland, Jean Claude ^a   Fuchs, Françoise ^a   Richard, Dominique ^b   Potier de Courcy, Geneviève ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b Centre de Gériatrie de Champmaillot   (France)

^c Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

Author keywords

Biochemical status; Blood counts; Cognitive deterioration; Dietary intake; Folate; Homocysteine; Hospitalized elderly people; Vitamin B 6

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; PYRIDOXINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHRONIC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN INTAKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; DIET RECORDS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PYRIDOXINE;

EID: 0034046089     PISSN: 07315724     EISSN: 15411087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07315724.2000.10718936     Document Type: Article

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