Mini nutritional assessment and short-form mini nutritional assessment can predict the future risk of falling in older adults - Results of a national cohort study

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 844-849

  Tsai, Alan C ^a,b   Lai, Mei Yen ^a,c  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Falling; Malnutrition; Mini nutritional assessment; Predicting falls

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

EID: 84906046550     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2013.10.010     Document Type: Article

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