The prognostic significance of malnutrition as assessed by the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) in older hospitalized patients with a heavy disease burden

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 113-117

  Vischer, Ulrich M ^a   Frangos, Emilia ^a   Graf, Christophe ^a   Gold, Gabriel ^a   Weiss, Lucien ^a   Herrmann, François R ^a   Zekry, Dina ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Co morbidities; Malnutrition; Mortality; Serum albumin

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELDER NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84856208732     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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