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Malnutrition in elderlyOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Malnutrition is a global health problem and has a high negative impact on population’s health, quality of life and over all morbidity and mortality.
Elderly are more prone to deleterious effects of malnutrition on all dimensions of health and health related quality of life due to increased prevalence of malnutrition and comorbidities among them as well as the limited physiological reserve and frailty nature of most of elderly.
In the current study we investigated the effect of malnutrition on HRQoL among sample of (170) community-dwelling elderly subjects living in rural settings.
Nutritional status was assessed using MNA, DQI-A and BMI. Health related quality of life was measured using SF-36. Comprehensive geriatric assessment including complete history taking, clinical examination, mental (MMSE), psychological (GDS) and functional assessment (ADL and IADL) were done for all subjects.
According to the current study, about (26.5%) of studied subjects suffered from malnutrition and (40.6%) of them were at risk according to MNA which is considered a high prevalence when compared with the worldwide prevalence. This study showed that about (10.6%) and (14.7%) of studied subjects were dependent in ADL and IADL respectively. About (22.4%) had profound cognitive impairment and about (25.9%) were depressed according to MMSE and GDS respectively.
In the current study we found that risk of malnutrition was significantly associated with advancing in age and with females.
Among the studied elderly subjects, significant relationships were found between risk of malnutrition and being widow, illiterate, with poor income and without work.
In this study we found that elderly with history of recurrent falls, GIT diseases, oral diseases, nervous diseases, genital diseases, incontinence, vision and hearing abnormalities were at greater risk for malnutrition. In the contrary, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and osteoarthritis were associated with higher level of nutritional status.
According to this study, malnutrition was significantly associated with lower MMSE, GDS, ADL and IADL scores.
Our study demonstrated that malnutrition was significantly associated with lower SF-36 scores (total scores and individual domains).