Immunological and nutritional factors in elderly people in low-level care and their association with mortality

Immunity and Ageing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Woods, Julie L ^a   Iuliano Burns, Sandra ^b   Walker, Karen Z ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged care; Dietary intake; Lymphocyte subsets; Mortality

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIETARY INTAKE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MORTALITY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NUTRIENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPENIA; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT DURATION; VENOUS BLOOD;

EID: 84881010251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4933-10-32     Document Type: Article

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