Nutritional status of Saudi males living in the Riyadh nursing home

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 372-376

  Alhamdan, Adel A ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Anthropometric measurements; Elderly; Gulf; Haematological measurements; Nursing home; Nutritional status; Saudi Arabia; Saudi males

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NURSING; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SAUDI ARABIA; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; UNDERWEIGHT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SAUDI ARABIA; SERUM ALBUMIN; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 11244274323     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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