Nutritional status and clinical outcomes among institutionalized elderly Chinese in Taiwan

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 315-323

  Chen, Liang Kung ^a,b   Lin, Ming Hsien ^a,b   Hwang, Shinn Jang ^a,b   Wang, Pein ^a   Chwang, Leh Chii ^a  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Body weight loss; Elderly; Institutional care; Long term care; Malnutrition

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINESE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAIWAN; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN;

EID: 33846889307     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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