Oropharyngeal dysphagia as a risk factor for malnutrition and lower respiratory tract infection in independently living older persons: A population-based prospective study

Age and Ageing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 376-381

  Serra Prat, Mateu ^a,b   Palomera, Mercè ^c   Gomez, Carlos ^c   Sar Shalom, David ^c   Saiz, Adoración ^c   Montoya, Jorge G ^c   Navajas, Mario ^c   Palomera, Elisabet ^a   Clavé, Pere ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE MATARÓ   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c Primary Care Centre 'Cirera Molins'   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; Elderly; Functional capacity; Lower respiratory tract infection; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GRIP STRENGTH; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPAIRED EFFICACY OF SWALLOW; IMPAIRED SAFETY OF SWALLOW; INCIDENCE; INDEPENDENT LIVING; INFECTION RISK; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHARYNX EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VOLUME VISCOSITY SWALLOW TEST;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860519063     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs006     Document Type: Article

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