Nutritional assessment interpretation on 22 007 Spanish community-dwelling elders through the Mini Nutritional Assessment test

Public Health Nutrition

D Ansorena¹  MA Martínez-González¹  A García¹  A Sánchez-Villegas¹  JA Martínez¹  M Cuervo¹  I Astiasarán¹ 

关键词: Community-dwelling elderly;    Mini Nutritional Assessment;    Nutritional status;    Undernutrition;   

DOI  :  10.1017/S136898000800195X

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Cambridge University Press

【 摘 要 】

ObjectivesTo evaluate the prevalence of undernutrition among community-dwelling elderly people in Spain using the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and to analyse its distribution according to age, gender and residence region.DesignCross-sectional study assessing the nutritional status of elderly persons through both the short form and the full version of the MNA test.SettingPharmacy offices across the whole country (Spain) were enrolled to recruit participants.SubjectsA total of 22 007 participants (8014 men and 13 993 women), aged ≥65 years, assessed during the last two months of 2005.ResultsAccording to MNA screening, 4·3 % subjects were classified as undernourished (MNA score

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