Malnutrition and Its Risk Factors in Nursing Home Residents in Cairo

Amer, Moatassem S.; Mousa, Shereen M.; Rahman, Tomader Taha Abdel; Saber, Heba Gamal

doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02410.x

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“…In the current study we found that age was associated with poor nutritional status, but educational level and gender weren't associated with the nutritional state. A recent study done among institutionalized older adults in Cairo, Egypt found that age was considered to be a risk factor for malnutrition, however they also found female gender to be a risk factor (21). The findings of this study show that those with risk of malnutrition and malnourished had significant poorer performance in cognitive tests.…”

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confidence: 39%

Nutritional status in older adults with mild cognitive impairment living in elderly homes in Cairo, Egypt

Khater

Abouelezz

2011

The Journal of nutrition, health and aging

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Nutritional status in older adults with mild cognitive impairment living in elderly homes in Cairo, Egypt

Khater

Abouelezz

2011

The Journal of nutrition, health and aging

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“…22 Há poucos estudos na literatura consultada que avaliaram idosos institucio-nalizados, merecedores de atenção pela crescente expansão devido ao aumento de longevidade, morbidade e problemas sociais. Polifarmácia possui associação com reações adversas aos medicamentos, quedas, 23,24 desnutrição, 25 prescrição de medicamentos inapropriados 26 e qualidade do sono. 27 Entretanto não foram encontrados, na literatura consultada, estudos em institucionalizados, cujo desfecho final seja a própria polifarmácia.…”

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Fatores associados à polifarmácia em idosos institucionalizados

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Pires

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Rev. bras. geriatr. gerontol.

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RESUMO A polifarmácia é um fator que tem grande impacto na segurança do paciente idoso, tendo em vista que é a grande responsável pelas interações medicamentosas. Os objetivos da presente pesquisa são identificar a prevalência e os fatores associados à polifarmácia. A metodologia utilizada foi estudo quantitativo descritivo prospectivo, baseado em análise documental por meio de um instrumento semiestruturado, analisando-se os dados no programa estatístico SPSS 20.0. Os resultados demonstraram que a média de idade foi de 71,9 anos, e 52,7% mulheres. O tempo de internação obteve uma média de 21,7 dias, a média de diagnósticos por paciente foi de 2,6. O principal diagnóstico de internação hospitalar foi doenças do aparelho circulatório (20,3%). A média de medicamentos prescritos por paciente foi de 6,8. Os medicamentos mais utilizados faziam parte do sistema digestório e metabólico (32,4%), a prevalência de prescrição de medicamentos potencialmente inadequados durante as internações avaliadas foi de 11,2%. Em relação às potenciais interações medicamentosas, foram identificadas em 65,5% das prescrições e os medicamentos mais envolvidos nas interações fazem parte do sistema cardiovascular (38,6%). Diante de tais resultados, verifica-se a necessidade de adotar estratégias para a otimização da farmacoterapia prestada ao paciente idoso. Palavras-chave: Medicamento. Prescrição. Polifarmácia. Interações de medicamentos. PREVALENCE AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH POLYPHARMACY AMONG THE ELDERLY A PUBLIC HOSPITAL ABSTRACT Polypharmacy is a factor that has great impact on the security of the elderly patient, considering that is largely responsible for drug interactions. The objectives of this research were to identify the prevalence and factors associated with polypharmacy. The methodology used was a prospective descriptive quantitative study based on document analysis through a semi-structured instrument, analyzing the data in SPSS 20.0. The results demonstrated that the mean age was 71.9 years, 52.7% female. The length of stay scores a 21.7 days, the average number of diagnoses per patient was 2.6. The main hospital was diagnosed with diseases of the circulatory system (20.3%). The average number of drugs prescribed per patient was 6.8. The most used drugs were part of the digestive and metabolic system (32.4%), the prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescription drugs evaluated during hospitalization was 11.2%. With regard to potential drug interactions, were identified in 65.5% of prescriptions drugs most involved in the interactions are part of the cardiovascular system (38.6%). Given these results, there is the need to adopt strategies for the optimization of pharmacotherapy given to the elderly.

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“…Some consider obesity a sign of affluence [17]. The same phenomenon is seen in the eastern Mediterranean region, such as in Egypt, where a study assessing the nutritional state of nursing home residents was recently performed, and overweight and obesity were found to be the most prevalent clinical characteristics (89%) [43]. Furthermore, according to WHO, one of the major causes of the increase in the prevalence of overweight/obesity is the overall inadequate food safety and nutrition education among the general population [44].…”

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Undernutrition Risk, Overweight/Obesity, and Nutritional Care in Relation to Undernutrition Risk among Inpatients in Southwestern Saudi Arabia. A Hospital-Based Point Prevalence Study

Khalaf¹,

Berggren²

2011

J Nutrition Disorder

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Background: Undernutrition is a problem in institutional care, where 20-46% of all inpatients are classified as being "at nutritional risk". This study explores the prevalence of undernutrition risk and overweight/obesity and the targeting of nutritional care in relation to undernutrition risk among inpatients in southwestern Saudi Arabia. Methods: A cross-sectional, point prevalence study was carried out in a Central hospital in southwestern Saudi Arabia. The subjects were inpatients, over the age of 18 who had their nutritional status assessed. Moderate/high undernutrition risk was defined as the occurrence of at least two of: weight loss, low BMI, and/or eating difficulties. Overweight/obesity was graded by using Caucasian and Asian cutoffs for BMI. Results: Out of 219 patients 166 (76%) agreed to participate (106 men and 60 women) with a significantly higher drop-out among women (n=35, 37% vs. men n=18, 14%). There was no significant difference in the prevalence of moderate/high undernutrition risk between men and women (40% vs. 38%) but more women (29% or 40%, depending on cutoff) than men (10% or 23%) were obese. Among patients at moderate/high undernutrition risk, more women (61%) than men (31%) were served small portions. Conclusions: There is a need to increase awareness about nutrition among nurses, to implement nutritional guidelines and to do more research regarding overweight/obesity among the female population. Motivational strategies need to be developed to focus on increasing the Saudi female participation in research.

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Malnutrition and Its Risk Factors in Nursing Home Residents in Cairo

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Nutritional status in older adults with mild cognitive impairment living in elderly homes in Cairo, Egypt

Nutritional status in older adults with mild cognitive impairment living in elderly homes in Cairo, Egypt

Fatores associados à polifarmácia em idosos institucionalizados

Undernutrition Risk, Overweight/Obesity, and Nutritional Care in Relation to Undernutrition Risk among Inpatients in Southwestern Saudi Arabia. A Hospital-Based Point Prevalence Study

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