Taste loss in hospitalized multimorbid elderly subjects

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages 167-174

  Toffanello, E D ^a   Inelmen, E M ^a   Imoscopi, A ^a   Perissinotto, E ^a   Coin, A ^a   Miotto, F ^a   Donini, L M ^b   Cucinotta, D ^c   Barbagallo, M ^d   Manzato, E ^a   Sergi, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hospitalized elderly; Malnutrition; Polypharmacy; Sour stimuli; Taste loss; Taste thresholds

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; AGEUSIA; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORGANOLEPTIC PROPERTY; POLYPHARMACY; SALTY TASTE; SOUR TASTE; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

HOSPITALIZED ELDERLY; MALNUTRITION; POLYPHARMACY; SOUR STIMULI; TASTE LOSS; TASTE THRESHOLDS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; TASTE DISORDERS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84873966706     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S37477     Document Type: Article

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