The AMEL study, a cross sectional population-based survey on aging and malnutrition in 1200 elderly Lebanese living in rural settings: Protocol and sample characteristics

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Boulos, Christa ^a   Salameh, Pascale ^b   Barberger Gateau, Pascale ^c,d  

^a SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Elderly; Malnutrition; Nutritional status; Rural health

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEBANON; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84878818341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-573     Document Type: Article

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