Frailty and nutrition: From epidemiological and clinical evidence to potential mechanisms

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 64-76

  Yannakoulia, Mary ^a   Ntanasi, Eva ^a,b   Anastasiou, Costas A ^a   Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^b,c  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Frailty; Mediterranean diet; Nutrition; Protein; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

CALORIC INTAKE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FRAILTY; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN INTAKE; REVIEW; AGED; AGING; DIET; FRAIL ELDERLY; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DIET; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 85006257770     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: 15328600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2016.12.005     Document Type: Review

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