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...

Objectives: Malnutrition is common in community-dwelling older adults and is associated with poor outcomes including hospitalization and mortality. Recently, a 6-question short form mini nutritional assessment (SF-MNA) was validated for rapid nutrition screening. Ideally, nutrition screening could be performed by individuals or their caregivers prior to or during an outpatient clinical visit, t...

BACKGROUND Although commonly observed, malnutrition is poorly characterized and frequently underdiagnosed in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The ability of nutritional screening tools to predict overall survival (OS) in patients with RCC has not been adequately validated. The objective of this study was to investigate the performance of nutritional screening tools and their...

b a ckground:  nutrition status is an important constituent of health in an elderly and  evaluation  of  these  groups  are  necessary  for  development  of  treatment protocols. the study aimed to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition with mini nutritional assessment (mna)  tool  in  the  elderly living in  nursing homes.  in addition, the association of mna results and functional status was...

BACKGROUND This study was aimed to assess agreement and diagnostic accuracy of the Iranian version of Mini Nutritional Assessment short-form (MNA-SF) against the original MNA, as a gold standard in community-dwelling elderly. METHODS The full MNA and 9-item MNA-SF comprising questions regarding clinical status, dietary assessment and self-perception of health status and nutri-tion together wi...

BACKGROUND & AIMS This cohort study aimed to investigate and compare the ability to predict malnutrition in a group of frail older hospital patients in the United Kingdom using the nutritional risk screening tools, MUST (malnutrition universal screening tool), MNA-SF(®) (mini nutritional assessment-short form) and bioelectrical impedance assessment (BIA) of body composition. METHODS MUST and ...

Objective: To compare the mortality-predictive ability of the fulland short-form (SF) Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA). Design: A prospective cohort study. Setting: Population-representative sample. Participants: 2872 ≥65-year old men and women. Measurements: The study analyzed 1999 and 2003 datasets of the Taiwan Longitudinal Survey on Aging (TLSA). Subjects were graded for nutritional status...

Malnutrition is a frequent complication for elderly demented patients even if they live at their own home with the assistance of a caregiver. The present study evaluates nutritional characteristics of a population of 130 non-institutionalized demented patients. The results show that the mini nutritional assessment (MNA) total score is inversely related with the neuro-psychiatric inventory (NPI)...

BACKGROUND The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) are two widely used malnutrition screening scales. OBJECTIVE The study was to compare the grading ability of the two scales, and to determine whether adoption of population-specific anthropometric cut-points could improve the grading ability of these tools and whether calf circumference (CC) ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and ageing may contribute to malnutrition. We aimed to explore whether COPD and ageing determine malnutrition in different manners. 460 stable COPD outpatients (376 males and 84 females) from the Extrapulmonary Consequences of COPD in the Elderly (ECCE) study database were investigated (age 75.0±5.9 yrs; forced expiratory volume in 1 s 54.7±18.3% pre...