Nutritional characterization by anthropometrics of institutionalized and non-institutionalized elderly Venezuelan;Caracterización nutricional antropométrica de ancianos institucionalizados y no institucionalizados

Investigacion Clinica

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 111-119

  Díaz, Nayka ^a,b   Meertens, Lesbia ^a   Solano, Liseti ^a   Peña, Evelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^b Hospital Universitario Dr Ángel Larralde   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Anthropometries; Free living elderly; Institutionalized elderly

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; SKINFOLD; UNDERWEIGHT; VENEZUELA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; THINNESS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 22144436303     PISSN: 05355133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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