...Pauline Courtois-Amiot; Hélène Allart; Castille de Cathelineau; Catherine Legué; Philippe Eischen; Fabienne Chetaille; Denise Lepineux; Agathe Raynaud-Simon; Manuel Sanchez Introduction: In nursing homes, where residents are at elevated risk for malnutrition, the specific additive effect...

... assessment and management of OD could lead to better and improved health outcomes for older adults. Therefore, we performed the first meta-analysis to determine the pooled prevalence of OD and risk of pneumonia, malnutrition, and mortality. Methods: Databases including Ovid-MEDLINE, Web of Science, Embase...

..., such as malnutrition, sarcopenia, or frailty. Increasing its recognition and the related mechanisms will allow us to its prevention and treatment at different levels of care. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the prevalence and biological correlates of OD in outpatient older adults. Method: This is a cross...

... the middle 10 m of a 16-m walkway with acceleration area. Decreased physical performance was defined as a 6-min walk distance < 300 m [ 17 ] and usual gait speed < 1.0 m/s [ 10 ] based on previous studies. Cardiology Cardiovascular disease Elderly patients Epidemiology Frailty Malnutrition...

...R. Serrano-Urrea; M.J. Garcia-Meseguer Background: The prevalence of malnutrition in institutionalized elderly people is generally high. A good nutritional status is related to a decrease in mortality and costs of morbidity treatments. Therefore, it is essential to know the nutritional status...

... Cognition Animale, Université Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse, France Key Words Dietary restriction Longevity Malnutrition Okinawa Obesity Abstract In their response to my letter to the editor, Drs. Gavrilova and Gavrilov disagree with some of my arguments and argue that dietary restriction studies...

...Éric Le Bourg Dietary restriction (DR: food restriction without malnutrition) is often considered as a nearly universal means to extend longevity in animal species and we could make the hypothesis that DR could increase longevity in humans. Some authors support the opinion that DR has already...

...H.B. Stähelin; H.O. Hofer; M. Vogel; C. Held; W.O. Seiler Demented elderly patients unable to eat independently and often refusing food are threatened by malnutrition. Therefore, we determined in 6 female patients aged 74–100 with senile dementia the average daily food consumption within a 3-week...

...Suzanne F. Bradley; Asda Vibhagool; Susan Fabrick; Margaret S. Terpenning; Carol A. Kauffman Protein malnutrition is associated with a decreased febrile and acute phase response to infection and increased mortality. To elucidate a cause for this poor response, we assessed the effect of chronic...

... by the municipalities. Objective: Since ageing and chronic diseases are risk factors for protein-energy malnutrition, we evaluated the nutritional status of all individuals in assisted accommodation, i.e., service flats (SF), old people’s homes (OPH), group living for the demented (GLD), and nursing homes (NH...