BMI: A simple, rapid and clinically meaningful index of under-nutrition in the oldest old?

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1300-1305

  Miller, Michelle D ^a   Thomas, Jolene M ^a   Cameron, Ian D ^b   Chen, Jian Sheng ^c   Sambrook, Philip N ^c   March, Lyn M ^c   Cumming, Robert G ^d   Lord, Stephen R ^e  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Falls; Fracture; Mortality; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; FALL RISK; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FALLING; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOME FOR THE AGED; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; NEW SOUTH WALES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 67649379220     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114508076289     Document Type: Article

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