Joint International Research Laboratory of Water and Nutrient in Crop, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
A high proportion of older care recipients (CRs) face malnutrition and risk of malnutrition, affecting their functional abilities and posing challenges for caregiving. The aim of this study was to ass...
A cross-sectional study consisted of 120 CRs (≥65 years) and their 118 FCs (≥60 years). Nutritional status was assessed with the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)....
The majority (63%) of the CRs had a risk of malnutrition (MNA score 17-23.5), and 7% had malnutrition (MNA score <17). The CRs had significantly lower MNA scores compared to their FCs (p < 0.001). The...
Malnutrition and risk of malnutrition are common concerns in older CRs, especially those with a higher number of comorbidities and low-grade inflammation. Regular assessment of the nutritional status ...
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Malnutrition is a critical issue among older inpatients, yet limited large-scale research related to this issue has been conducted in China. This study aimed to examine the nutritional status and supp...
A total of 24,139 older participants from the China Nutrition Fundamental Data 2020 Project were included. Malnutrition was measured by the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition criteria. Adjus...
The overall frequency of malnutrition on admission was 18.9%. Participants with infections were more likely to have malnutrition (aOR = 1.929, 95% CI 1.486-2.504). Risks that were also noted for malnu...
Older inpatients were at a high risk for malnutrition but did not receive adequate nutritional intervention. More resources and attention need to be devoted to the nutritional status of older inpatien...
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease affecting the joints. It has been suggested that obesity increases the likelihood of RA development lowers the chance to achieve ...
We used the NHANES database from 2015 to 2018, assessing anthropometric data, body composition, micronutrients, bone metabolism, protein content and laboratory data from those participants; and to com...
The higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome together with the inflammatory state of RA, constitute important cardiovascular risk factors, which should be addressed aggressively preferably by primary p...
There are many educational and health programs implemented on a smaller or larger scale in Poland. Many of them address the problem of overweight and obesity in different age groups. Each such activit...
The study group of students participated in a Human Nutrition course that included 30 hours of lectures and 30 hours of exercises. In the study group, the level of knowledge was assessed twice (before...
The study group showed a statistically significant increase in the number of correct answers on the nutrition knowledge questionnaire after the nutrition education (average 9.7 points vs. 11.4 points;...
The knowledge gained during nutrition education allowed the surveyed students to give more correct answers in the questionnaire after the Human Nutrition course. The nutritional status of the surveyed...
Older patients are prone to multimorbidity or related polypharmacy, which may cause various adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and a high incidence of drug-related health problems. Although not often noted...
During the disease course, most Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients present a condition of malnutrition, undernutrition, or even overnutrition. These conditions are mainly due to suboptimal nutritiona...
In patients with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), a rare genetic neuromuscular disease, reduced physical performance is associated with lower blood levels of vitamin C, zinc, selenium, a...
Eating disorders, especially restrictive eating, are common among female athletes. There are two main types of winter sports: those that are practiced outdoors on snow (-25 to +5 °C and 2500 m), such ...