Overweight and obesity among older adults on admission to hospital.
Affiliation
Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Health Science, St lames's Hospital, Dublin. fiona.lithander@tcd.ieIssue Date
2011-03MeSH
AgedAged, 80 and over
Body Mass Index
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Hospitalization
Humans
Ireland
Male
Nutritional Status
Obesity
Overweight
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Overweight and obesity among older adults on admission to hospital. 2011, 104 (3):87-8 Ir Med JJournal
Irish medical journalPubMed ID
21667614Additional Links
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21667614Abstract
Poor nutritional status, which includesboth under- a nd over-nutrition, i s associated w it h poor health outcomes. T his cross-sectional study assessed the nutritional status of older patients admitted to an acute geriatric ward of a Dublin hospital. Anthropometric and clinical measurements were made. Thirty patients, mean (sd) age 79 (7) y and body mass index 26.6 (4.7) kg/m2, participated. More patients were overweight (n = 12) or obese (n = 9) than underweight (n= 1) or healthy weight (n = 8) which indicates that this age-group may be part of the Irish obesity epidemic.Item Type
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0332-3102Collections
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