Population-specific Mini Nutritional Assessment effectively predicts the nutritional state and follow-up mortality of institutionalized elderly Taiwanese regardless of cognitive status

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 152-158

  Tsai, Alan C ^a,b   Ku, Pei Yu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Mortality; Nutritional assessment; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CHOLESTEROL;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTION; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; TAIWAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 53049109504     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114507873600     Document Type: Article

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