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Prevalence of malnutrition among Portuguese elderly living in nursing homes : preliminary results of the PEN-3S project
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Resumo(s)
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.
Descrição
Proceedings of the 3rd IPLeiria’s International Health Congress Leiria, Portugal. 6-7 May 2016
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© 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.
Palavras-chave
Malnutrition Undernutrition Obesity Elderly Nursing home
Contexto Educativo
Citação
BMC Health Services Research 2016, Volume 16 Suppl 3
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BMC