Aging and nutrition. Paving the way to better health
Sufficient caloric intake is important to maintain the balanced health status, especially during the period of aging, as aging and sickness share paths. Maintaining adequate nutritional balance is the best preventive measure to counteract the risk of malnutrition. There are several causes for malnut...
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doaj-ebe13689e8f14f86aeb25025b80d81502021-09-05T14:01:26ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of Internal Medicine2501-062X2020-06-01582556810.2478/rjim-2020-0005rjim-2020-0005Aging and nutrition. Paving the way to better healthMolina-Molina Emilio0Garruti Gabriella1Shanmugam Harshitha2Di Palo Domenica Maria3Grattagliano Ignazio4Mastronuzzi Tecla5Portincasa Piero6“A. Murri” Clinica Medica, Department of Biomedical Sciences & Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, ItalyDepartment of Emergency and Organ Transplants, Section of Endocrinology, Andrology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy“A. Murri” Clinica Medica, Department of Biomedical Sciences & Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy“A. Murri” Clinica Medica, Department of Biomedical Sciences & Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, ItalyItalian College of General Practitioners and Primary Care,Florence, ItalyItalian College of General Practitioners and Primary Care,Florence, Italy“A. Murri” Clinica Medica, Department of Biomedical Sciences & Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, ItalySufficient caloric intake is important to maintain the balanced health status, especially during the period of aging, as aging and sickness share paths. Maintaining adequate nutritional balance is the best preventive measure to counteract the risk of malnutrition. There are several causes for malnutrition in elderly people, and some techniques such as anthropometric measurements, laboratory and clinical parameters could help to diagnose malnutrition in these patients. The use of a simple validated questionnaire called the ‘Mini Nutritional Assessment’ measures the nutritional status of elderly patients. In this review, we discuss about the malnutrition in elderly people with and without a known cause and we present some of nutritional intervention. There are promising strategies that help overcoming malnutrition.https://doi.org/10.2478/rjim-2020-0005aginganthropometric assessmentelderlymalnutritionnutrition |
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Aging and nutrition. Paving the way to better health |
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aging and nutrition. paving the way to better health |
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Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine |
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2501-062X |
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Sufficient caloric intake is important to maintain the balanced health status, especially during the period of aging, as aging and sickness share paths. Maintaining adequate nutritional balance is the best preventive measure to counteract the risk of malnutrition. There are several causes for malnutrition in elderly people, and some techniques such as anthropometric measurements, laboratory and clinical parameters could help to diagnose malnutrition in these patients. The use of a simple validated questionnaire called the ‘Mini Nutritional Assessment’ measures the nutritional status of elderly patients. In this review, we discuss about the malnutrition in elderly people with and without a known cause and we present some of nutritional intervention. There are promising strategies that help overcoming malnutrition. |
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aging anthropometric assessment elderly malnutrition nutrition |
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