Prevalence of malnutrition among Portuguese elderly living in nursing homes : preliminary results of the PEN-3S project

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العنوان: Prevalence of malnutrition among Portuguese elderly living in nursing homes : preliminary results of the PEN-3S project
المؤلفون: Madeira, Teresa, Plácido, Catarina Peixoto, Santos, Nuno, Santos, Osvaldo, Bergland, Astrid, Bye, Asta, Lopes, Carla, Alarcão, Violeta, Goulão, Beatriz, Mendonça, Nuno, Nicola, Paulo Jorge Morais Zamith, Gorjão Clara, João Pedro Pereira
المساهمون: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
بيانات النشر: BMC, 2016.
سنة النشر: 2016
مصطلحات موضوعية: Malnutrition, Undernutrition, Obesity, Elderly, Nursing home
الوصف: Proceedings of the 3rd IPLeiria’s International Health Congress Leiria, Portugal. 6-7 May 2016
Description (Translated): © 2016 The Author(s). Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Background: Malnutrition is a modifiable risk factor for several diseases among elderly. To develop appropriate nutrition policies to decrease malnutrition, up-to-date information on the dimension of the problem is warranted. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of malnutrition among Portuguese elderly (65+ years old) resident in nursing homes.
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اللغة: English
Relation: BMC Health Services Research 2016, Volume 16 Suppl 3; 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1423-5
الاتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/41323
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DOI:10.1186/s12913-016-1423-5