Tongue thickness relates to nutritional status in the elderly

Dysphagia

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 556-561

  Tamura, Fumiyo ^a   Kikutani, Takeshi ^a   Tohara, Takashi ^a   Yoshida, Mitsuyoshi ^b   Yaegaki, Ken ^a  

^a NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima City General Rehabilitation Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deglutition; Deglutition disorders; Dysphagia; Nutritional status; Sarcopenia; Tongue thickness; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHAGIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDARM MUSCLE AREA; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TOOTH THICKNESS; ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; LONG TERM CARE; PROCEDURES; SARCOPENIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TONGUE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SARCOPENIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TONGUE;

EID: 84876289388     PISSN: 0179051X     EISSN: 14320460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00455-012-9407-z     Document Type: Article

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