Evaluating the DETERMINE Your Nutritional Health Checklist and the Mini Nutritional Assessment as tools to identify nutritional problems in elderly Europeans
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The DETERMINE Your Nutritional Health Checklist, developed as part of the US Nutrition Screening Initiative, and the Mini Nutritional Assessment, which was developed in France and aims to evaluate the risk of malnutrition, have been found to classify the 75- to 79-year-old Survey in Europe on Nutrition and the Elderly, a Concerted Action (SENECA), participants differently. This research therefore raises questions about the applicability of both risk-appraisal questionnaires in the SENECA populations. Further research is required to identify possible assessment modifications.
Publication Name: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-3007
Year: 1998
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Modification of the nutrition questionnaire for elderly to increase its ability to detect elderly people with inadequate intake of energy, calcium, vitamin C and vitamin D
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The Nutrition Questionnaire for Elderly (NQE) is able to rank elderly people according to whether their intake of calcium, energy, vitamin D and vitamin C is acceptable or 'at risk.' Despite this, the proportion of elderly people correctly assessed as having consumption of these nutrients lower than the selected cut-off values was low. It has been shown that the modified NQE is more effective than the NQE in establishing whether elderly people have inadequate intake of vitamin C, vitamin D, calcium and energy.
Publication Name: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-3007
Year: 1999
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A six months' prospective follow-up of 65 plus year old patients from general practice classified according to nutritional risk by the Mini Nutritional Assessment
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This article investigates the prevalence and risk factors for malnutrition in the aged. An analysis of dietary intake, body mass index, and use of home-care services is presented.
Publication Name: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-3007
Year: 2001
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