The importance of assessing nutritional status in elderly patients with heart failure

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 220-226

  Sargento, Luis ^a   Longo, Susana ^a   Lousada, Nuno ^a   Dos Reis, Roberto Palma ^a  

^a Lisbon   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Elderly; Geriatric; Heart failure; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR;

AGED; BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; ALGORITHM; COMPLICATION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BODY MASS INDEX; ELDER NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 84903600414     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-014-0189-5     Document Type: Review

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