Risk of being undernourished in a cohort of community‐dwelling 85‐year‐olds: The Octabaix study

Abstract

There is a high risk of being undernourished in 85-year-old subjects. This nutritional status was positively associated with being female, disability, increased social risk and a high number of prescription drugs, whereas there was a protective relationship with cardiovascular prescription. In evaluations of nutritional status in the community, a multidisciplinary assessment is more valid than analytical findings.

Social and Economic Factors and Malnutrition or the Risk of Malnutrition in the Elderly: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies

“…A total of 106 studies were full-text assessed, and 66 were excluded because of the following reasons: results not related to the outcomes studied (n = 48), text not available (n = 8), non-representative population sample (n = 5), and wrong study design (n = 5). Finally, as shown in Figure 1, 40 studies were included in the systematic review [13,14, and 16 studies in the meta-analysis [13,20,21,25,26,29,30,35,36,39,42,43,45,[51][52][53]. related to the socioeconomic variable was required.…”

“…Of the total 40 included studies, 36 were cross-sectional [13,14,17,18,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][51][52][53] and four were cohort studies [16,19,33,50]. The study population was 60 years old and above, except for two studies that focused only on people aged over either 85 years [26] or 90 years [37]. The total number of participants in the different studies ranged from 67 subjects [48] to 15,669 subjects [49], with a total of 61,818 subjects included in the present systematic review.…”

“…All of the studies included people of both genders, except two studies [50,51]-one of them was only focused on men [50] and the other only on women [51]. Of the 40 studies included in the systematic review, according to the Development Human Index from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) [54], 33 were conducted in regions with a high development human index (Poland [39], Sweden [38,40], China [30,37,53], Turkey [52], Canada [49,50], Italy [14,35], Taiwan [16], Lebanon [17,20,25], Brazil [18], Ireland [19,31], Finland [21], Spain [13,22,26], Norway [23,34], Portugal [24], Korea [27], Iran [28], Sri Lanka [29], New Zealand [48], Mexico [32], Amsterdam [33], Malaysia [36], and Shanghai [51]), five were conducted in regions with a medium development human index (Bangladesh [41,44], India [42], South Africa [43], and Egypt [45]), and two were conducted in regions with a low development human index (Central Africa…”

“…Of the 40 observational studies included in the systematic review, regarding the tools used to assess the nutritional status, 29 studies used the MNA [13,14,[16][17][18]20,21,[23][24][25][26][28][29][30][31][32][34][35][36][37][39][40][41][42][43]45,[51][52][53], one of which also used the Norwegian version of the Nutritional Form For the Elderly (NUFFE-NO) [34]. Of the other studies, five used only the Body Mass Index (BMI) [19,22,33,44,46] and one also used self-reported weight loss [19], four used the Senior in the community: risk evaluation for eating and nutrition (SCREEN II) [38,[48][49][50] and two used the Nutritional Screening Initiative (NSI) [27,47].…”

Effects of a Home-Based and Volunteer-Administered Physical Training, Nutritional, and Social Support Program on Malnutrition and Frailty in Older Persons: A Randomized Controlled Trial

“…The prevalence of nutritional risk was found to be 35% in a cohort of community-dwelling persons older than 85 years. 2 Malnutrition can lead to serious health problems. 3e5 There is also evidence that the role of nutrition is important in the prevention and postponement of disability.…”