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Relationship between anthropometric variables and nutrient intake in apparently healthy male elderly individuals: A study from Pakistan

BACKGROUND: The elderly population is increasing worldwide, which warrants their nutritional status assessment more important. The present study was undertaken to establish the nutritional status of the least-studied elderly population in Pakistan. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study with a sa...

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Autores principales: Alam, Iftikhar, Larbi, Anis, Pawelec, Graham, Paracha, Parvez I
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3207878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21992515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-10-111
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author Alam, Iftikhar
Larbi, Anis
Pawelec, Graham
Paracha, Parvez I
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description BACKGROUND: The elderly population is increasing worldwide, which warrants their nutritional status assessment more important. The present study was undertaken to establish the nutritional status of the least-studied elderly population in Pakistan. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study with a sample of 526 generally healthy free-living elderly men (mean age: 68.9 yr; range: 50-98 yr) from Peshawar, Pakistan. Anthropometric measurements (weight, height, WC) were measured and BMI and WHR were calculated from these measurements following WHO standard procedures. Dietary intake was assessed by 24-hr dietary recall. Nutrients were calculated from the information on food intake. Nutrients in terms of % of RNI were calculated using WHO data on recommended intakes. RESULTS: Based on BMI, the numbers of obese, overweight and underweight elderly were 13.1, 3.1 and 10.8%, respectively. Age was negatively and significantly correlated with BMI (p = 0.0028). Energy (p = 0.0564) and protein intake (p = 0.0776) tended to decrease with age. There was a significant increase in % BF with age (p = <0.0001). The normal weight elderly had significantly (p < 0.05) higher intake of all nutrients studied, except energy which was significantly (p < 0.05) higher in obese and overweight elderly. Overall, however, the majority of subjects had lower than adequate nutrient intake (67.3 - 100% of recommendation). CONCLUSIONS: Malnutrition is common in apparently healthy elderly Pakistani men. Very few elderly have adequate nutrient intake. Obese and overweight had higher % BF as compared to normal weight elderly. Older age is associated with changes not only in anthropometrics and body composition but also in intake of key nutrients like energy and protein.
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spelling pubmed-32078782011-11-04 Relationship between anthropometric variables and nutrient intake in apparently healthy male elderly individuals: A study from Pakistan Alam, Iftikhar Larbi, Anis Pawelec, Graham Paracha, Parvez I Nutr J Research BACKGROUND: The elderly population is increasing worldwide, which warrants their nutritional status assessment more important. The present study was undertaken to establish the nutritional status of the least-studied elderly population in Pakistan. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study with a sample of 526 generally healthy free-living elderly men (mean age: 68.9 yr; range: 50-98 yr) from Peshawar, Pakistan. Anthropometric measurements (weight, height, WC) were measured and BMI and WHR were calculated from these measurements following WHO standard procedures. Dietary intake was assessed by 24-hr dietary recall. Nutrients were calculated from the information on food intake. Nutrients in terms of % of RNI were calculated using WHO data on recommended intakes. RESULTS: Based on BMI, the numbers of obese, overweight and underweight elderly were 13.1, 3.1 and 10.8%, respectively. Age was negatively and significantly correlated with BMI (p = 0.0028). Energy (p = 0.0564) and protein intake (p = 0.0776) tended to decrease with age. There was a significant increase in % BF with age (p = <0.0001). The normal weight elderly had significantly (p < 0.05) higher intake of all nutrients studied, except energy which was significantly (p < 0.05) higher in obese and overweight elderly. Overall, however, the majority of subjects had lower than adequate nutrient intake (67.3 - 100% of recommendation). CONCLUSIONS: Malnutrition is common in apparently healthy elderly Pakistani men. Very few elderly have adequate nutrient intake. Obese and overweight had higher % BF as compared to normal weight elderly. Older age is associated with changes not only in anthropometrics and body composition but also in intake of key nutrients like energy and protein. BioMed Central 2011-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3207878/ /pubmed/21992515 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-10-111 Text en Copyright ©2011 Alam et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Paracha, Parvez I
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title Relationship between anthropometric variables and nutrient intake in apparently healthy male elderly individuals: A study from Pakistan
title_full Relationship between anthropometric variables and nutrient intake in apparently healthy male elderly individuals: A study from Pakistan
title_fullStr Relationship between anthropometric variables and nutrient intake in apparently healthy male elderly individuals: A study from Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between anthropometric variables and nutrient intake in apparently healthy male elderly individuals: A study from Pakistan
title_short Relationship between anthropometric variables and nutrient intake in apparently healthy male elderly individuals: A study from Pakistan
title_sort relationship between anthropometric variables and nutrient intake in apparently healthy male elderly individuals: a study from pakistan
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3207878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21992515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-10-111
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