Old Age, Malnutrition, and Pressure Sores: An Ill-Fated Alliance

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 355-360

  Mathus Vliegen, Elisabeth M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASCORBIC ACID; COPPER; MANGANESE; RETINOL; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN B GROUP; ZINC;

AGED; AGING; APATHY; CALORIC INTAKE; DECUBITUS; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; MALNUTRITION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TUBE FEEDING; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN INTAKE; WOUND; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1842731104     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/59.4.m355     Document Type: Review

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