Background: Malnutrition, loss of body weight, muscle and fat mass wasting are common in patients with Parkinson's disease, and are associated with disability, longer length of hospital stay, impaired immune system and increased risk of mortality. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status in patients with Parkinson's disease and its relation to the severity of the disease. Meth...

Introduction: The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) has been developed to assess malnutrition in elderly and to filter those who might get benefited from early diagnosis and treatment. The objective of the present study was to examine the nutritional profile of old age hospitalized individuals through the use of the MNA in King Khalid hospital at Hail city of Saudi Arabia. Methods: Demogra...

A novel triphenyltin(IV) derivative of 2-mercaptonicotinic acid (H(2)mna) of formula {[(C(6)H(5))(3)Sn](2)(mna).[(CH(3))(2)CO]} (1) has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis and (1)H, (13)C-NMR, and FT-IR spectroscopic techniques. The crystal structure of complex (1) has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis at 173(1) K. Compound (1) contains two triphe...

Objective. To investigate the prevalence of malnutrition in orally and tube-fed nursing home (NH) residents in Germany and its relation to common health complaints and dietary intake. Methods. In 350 NH residents, subjects' characteristics, Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), and several health problems were inquired with the nursing staff using standardised interviews. In a subset of 122 reside...

Soy and the Health of 12 Older Individuals LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the completion of this self-study article, the learner will be able to: • Describe the relationship between Mini-Nutrition Assessment (MNA) scores and oral health. • Describe the negative impact of poor oral health on nutritional status as it relates to an MNA score and BMI. • Distinguish between the effects of food avoidance and...

N1-methylnicotinamide (MNA) is found in urine as an assymilation product when administered as nicotinic acid or nicotinamide. MNA was extracted from urine as a pure product and its physicochemical properties reported (4-6). Its maximum adsorption is reported by Hochberg, Melnick, and Oser (4) to lie at 265mƒÊ, E1cm1% 265mƒÊ=258 at pH 9.7. It is stable in urine in the dark for one week, even in ...

RESEARCH DESIGN ANDMETHODSdVeterans with type 2 diabetes (740,195) were followed from January 2002 until death, loss to follow-up, or December 2006. A novel multivariate, generalized, linear, mixed modeling approach was used to assess the differential effect of MNA, defined as medication possession ratio (MPR) $0.8 on healthcare costs. A sensitivity analysis was performed to assess potential co...

Abstract A tool to assess nutritional status in older persons was really needed. It took 5 years design the MNA® (Mini Nutrition Assessment) tool, complete first validations studies both Europe and U.S. publish it. After full MNA®, short form self-MNA® have been validated. As well as Chinese other national forms. Now more than 2000 clinical research used all over world from community care hospi...

This study aimed to assess the prevalence of malnutrition and risk older adults, identify socio-demographic medical characteristics that affect nutritional status adults in Konya city centrum. cross-sectional was conducted between April July. Sociodemographic history questionnaire prepared by researcher, Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) Mini-Mental State Examin...

Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT), which converts nicotinamide to 1-methylnicotinamide (1-MNA), is overexpressed in a variety of human cancers and serves as a potential anti-cancer target. In this study, we investigated the effect of NNMT on 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) sensitivity of colorectal cancer (CRC) cells, and the underlying mechanisms. Our results show that down-regulation of NNMT in C...