Assessing the prevalence of malnutrition with the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) in a nationally representative sample of elderly Taiwanese

Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 239-243

  Tsai, A C ^a,b   Ho, C S ^b   Chang, M C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Malnutrition; Mini Nutritional Assessment; Nutritional risk; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAIWAN;

EID: 47749106082     PISSN: 12797707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02982628     Document Type: Article

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