Association between Functional Capacity Decline and Nutritional Status Based on the Nutrition Screening Initiative Checklist: A 2-Year Cohort Study of Japanese Community-Dwelling Elderly.

Association between Functional Capacity Decline and Nutritional Status Based on the Nutrition Screening Initiative Checklist: A 2-Year Cohort Study of Japanese Community-Dwelling Elderly.

To assess whether nutritional status based on the Nutrition Screening Initiative Checklist is useful for predicting functional capacity decline in community-dwelling Japanese elderly.This two-year observational cohort study included 536 community-dwelling Japanese (65 years and older at baseline) wh...

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Main Authors: Yumiko Sugiura, Yoshimi Tanimoto, Ayumi Imbe, Yuiko Inaba, Satoshi Sakai, Kanako Shishikura, Keiji Tanimoto, Toshiaki Hanafusa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5100942?pdf=render

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