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Nutritional assessment of institutionalized elderly
OBJECTIVE: To define the nutritional profile of institutionalized elderly individuals. METHODS: Comparative correlation and quantitative field study conducted in a Long-Stay Institution in Sao Paulo (SP), Brazil, between December 2010 and January 2012. To define nutritional diagnosis, data were coll...
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Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4872965/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23579741 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082013000100007 |
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author | Volpini, Milena Maffei Frangella, Vera Silvia |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To define the nutritional profile of institutionalized elderly individuals. METHODS: Comparative correlation and quantitative field study conducted in a Long-Stay Institution in Sao Paulo (SP), Brazil, between December 2010 and January 2012. To define nutritional diagnosis, data were collected from patient files, such as body mass index, circumferences, triceps skinfold, muscle area of the arm, thickness of the adductor pollicis, handgrip strength, and biochemical test results. The anthropometric variables were presented as mean, standard deviation, and percentages, and were grouped by gender and stratified by age. The level of statistical significance was p<0.05. RESULTS: One hundred and two elderly individuals were selected, and 84 were females. Excess weight was the most common anthropometric diagnosis in men (n=11; 61%), with the detection of protein depletion in those aged 70 years, and possible cases of sarcopenic obesity. All women were in good health conditions (n=84; 100%). However, in 27% (n=23) of them, protein depletion was evident. CONCLUSION: More anthropometric studies are necessary which would allow a definition of local reference standards, stratified by gender and age group. The difference between populations and factors, such as inclusion and exclusion criteria, and methodological characteristics, limit the use of international standards, interfering in the reliability of the nutritional diagnosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-48729652016-08-10 Nutritional assessment of institutionalized elderly Volpini, Milena Maffei Frangella, Vera Silvia Einstein (Sao Paulo) Original Article OBJECTIVE: To define the nutritional profile of institutionalized elderly individuals. METHODS: Comparative correlation and quantitative field study conducted in a Long-Stay Institution in Sao Paulo (SP), Brazil, between December 2010 and January 2012. To define nutritional diagnosis, data were collected from patient files, such as body mass index, circumferences, triceps skinfold, muscle area of the arm, thickness of the adductor pollicis, handgrip strength, and biochemical test results. The anthropometric variables were presented as mean, standard deviation, and percentages, and were grouped by gender and stratified by age. The level of statistical significance was p<0.05. RESULTS: One hundred and two elderly individuals were selected, and 84 were females. Excess weight was the most common anthropometric diagnosis in men (n=11; 61%), with the detection of protein depletion in those aged 70 years, and possible cases of sarcopenic obesity. All women were in good health conditions (n=84; 100%). However, in 27% (n=23) of them, protein depletion was evident. CONCLUSION: More anthropometric studies are necessary which would allow a definition of local reference standards, stratified by gender and age group. The difference between populations and factors, such as inclusion and exclusion criteria, and methodological characteristics, limit the use of international standards, interfering in the reliability of the nutritional diagnosis. Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC4872965/ /pubmed/23579741 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082013000100007 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Volpini, Milena Maffei Frangella, Vera Silvia Nutritional assessment of institutionalized elderly |
title | Nutritional assessment of institutionalized elderly |
title_full | Nutritional assessment of institutionalized elderly |
title_fullStr | Nutritional assessment of institutionalized elderly |
title_full_unstemmed | Nutritional assessment of institutionalized elderly |
title_short | Nutritional assessment of institutionalized elderly |
title_sort | nutritional assessment of institutionalized elderly |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4872965/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23579741 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082013000100007 |
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