The mini nutritional assessment is associated with the perception of dyspnoea in older subjects with advanced COPD [1]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 214-217

  Scichilone, Nicola ^a   Paglino, Giuseppe ^a   Battaglia, Salvatore ^a   Martino, Lavinia ^a   Interrante, Amelia ^a   Bellia, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY TRACT AGENT;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BASAL METABOLISM; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 41249098206     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afm143     Document Type: Letter

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