Assessment of the nutritional risk of >53-year-old men and women in Taiwan

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-76

  Tsai, Alan C ^a   Chang, Jack M C ^b   Lin, Harvey ^b   Chuang, Yi Li ^b   Lin, Shu Hui ^b   Lin, Yu Hsuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ageing; Elderly; Nutritional risk; Risk assessment; Taiwan; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; TAIWAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAIWAN;

EID: 1542290542     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2003519     Document Type: Article

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