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Frailty and nutritional status in older people: the Mini Nutritional Assessment as a screening tool for the identification of frail subjects

INTRODUCTION: Frailty is a condition characterized by reduced resistance to low-level stress events, resulting from the progressive decline of multiple physiological systems observed with aging. Many factors can contribute to the pathogenesis of frailty, and nutritional status appears to play a key...

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Autores principales: Valentini, Alessia, Federici, Massimo, Cianfarani, Maria Assunta, Tarantino, Umberto, Bertoli, Aldo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6047619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034227
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S164174