Malnutrition in the elderly and its relationship with other geriatric syndromes

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 745-748

  Saka, Bulent ^a   Kaya, Omer ^a   Ozturk, Gulistan Bahat ^a   Erten, Nilgun ^a   Karan, M Akif ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Geriatric assessment; Malnutrition; Older age

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; EATING; ELDER NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77958519405     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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