THIS short book consists of nine lectures given at a recent symposium in the University of Edinburgh. The topics cover a wide range of interest from nutrition in the fetus to nutrition in the elderly. Most of the chapters are well written and give an overview of the subject. The general conclusion from reading the book is that there is little evidence that malnutrition in general or deficiences...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Nutrition assessment enables early identification of malnourished patients and those at risk of malnutrition. To determine the prevalence of malnutrition, to analyze the correlation between short-form Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA-SF) and Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS2002) with classical nutritional markers among elderly hospitalized patients in surgery departme...

Older people are at an increased risk of developing respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, asthma, idiopathic fibrosis or lung infections. Susceptibility to these is partly due the intrinsic ageing process, characterized by genomic, cellular and metabolic hallmarks immunosenescence, associated with changes in intestinal microbiota. Importantly, lungs, also a dysbio...

Malnutrition seriously affects the health of elderly. The objective study is to determine variation nutritional status elderly with respect their socio economic and demographic characteristic. For this, a sample four hundred respondents have been selected randomly from Sunamgonj district in Bangladesh during 2019. Mini Nutrition Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF) used assess nutrition Percent frequ...

malnutrition and dehydration are two most common types of ailments residents of nursing homes (nh) prone to. it is very important to assess these problems because they can predispose the residents to severe illnesses. the aim of this study was to gather information on nutritional status and its associated risk factors in elderly residents of nhs in tehran, iran.from 16 nhs in tehran, 263 reside...

Increasing the degree of health means that life expectancy will also increase, and number older people increase. The consequence increasing is emergence disease problems due to old age, one which osteoporosis. This activity aimed determine status elderly by conducting checks providing nutrition education prevent osteoporosis in Padang City. service was held Korong Gadang Elderly Posyandu April ...