Applied Nutritional InvestigationsThe mini nutritional assessment (MNA) and its use in grading the nutritional state of elderly patients
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Nutrition screening in elderly patients
The prevalence of malnutrition reaches significant levels (15–60%) in elderly patients who are hospitalized, live in nursing homes, or are in home-care programs.7, 8 This condition often goes unrecognized due to the lack of a specific, validated instrument to detect malnutrition in these frail elderly persons. In the past two decades, a number of geriatric assessment instruments have been developed to diagnose and treat high-risk elderly patients. However, too little attention has been given to
The mini nutritional assessment
The development, validation, and cross-validation of a nutritional assessment test, the MNA, was a collaborative research program between the Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Gerontology, Toulouse University Hospital, France, the Clinical Nutrition Program, University of New Mexico, USA, and the Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland.1, 2, 3 The following requirements are necessary for a simple and rapid evaluation test3: reliable scale; permits definition of thresholds;
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