Nutritional form for the elderly is a reliable and valid instrument for the determination of undernutrition risk, and it is associated with health-related quality of life

Nutrition Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 59-65

  Gombos, Tímea ^a   Kertész, Krisztina ^a   Csíkos, Ágnes ^a   Söderhamn, Ulrika ^b   Söderhamn, Olle ^b,c   Prohászka, Zoltán ^a,d  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

BMI; body mass index; Dietary intervention; EQ 5D; EuroQol instrument design to measure health related quality of life; Health related quality of life; Human; Hungarian version of NUFFE; I.q.r; interquartile ranges; NUFFE; NUFFE HU; Nutrition assessment; nutritional form for elderly; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE COURSE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38349096207     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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