Is weight loss in the nursing home a reversible problem?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 7, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Aoyama, Linda ^a   Weintraub, Nancy ^b   Reuben, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALENDRONIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; APPETITE STIMULANT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYPROHEPTADINE; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DRONABINOL; EPHEDRINE; IRON; LAXATIVE; MEGESTROL ACETATE; METFORMIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MIRTAZAPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PAROXETINE; POTASSIUM; PREDNISONE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; SERTRALINE; THEOPHYLLINE; THYROID EXTRACT; THYROXINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DYSPHAGIA; EUPHORIA; FEEDING DISORDER; FLUID RETENTION; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; HYPOGEUSIA; METABOLIC DISORDER; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATIETY; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; THOUGHT DISORDER; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 33144476825     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2005.12.018     Document Type: Article

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