Malnutrition and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Current Nutrition Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 102-109

  Sheard, Jamie M ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Depression; Disease severity; Malnutrition; Malnutrition Screening Tool; Mini Nutritional Assessment; Nutrition assessment; Nutrition screening; Nutritional status; Parkinson disease; Subjective Global Assessment; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BODY MASS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MALNUTRITION UNIVERSAL SCREENING TOOL; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT SHORT FORM; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT GENERATED SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84988406215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21613311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13668-014-0078-2     Document Type: Review

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